Medicine and Science
- Fatty acid, in biochemistry, a carboxylic acid.
- Fatty acid metabolism, catabolic processes.
- Fatty alcohol, aliphatic alcohols derived from natural fats and oils.
- Fatty degeneration, the deposit of fat globules in a tissue.
- Fatty liver, a medical condition.
- Fatty streak, the earliest stages of atheroma.
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