FAtty - Medicine and Science

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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