fatty

Converse of object

• see: The first time you see a fatty, you'll get a chuckle.

Adjective modifier

• big: Unless you're a big fatty and have eaten it already.

Modifies a noun

• acid: Some common fatty acids are shown below: Solid or Liquid?
• liver: Minimal change, or fatty liver: heavy drinkers often develop fatty change in the liver.
• metabolism: Main current research is a BBSRC project on microarray analysis to study gene regulation of polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism.
• tissue: Their humps are made up of a fatty tissue which the camels draw energy from.
• oxidation: Control of fatty acid oxidation is exerted mainly at the step of fatty acid entry into mitochondria.
• deposit: The blood vessel on the right has been narrowed by the build up of fatty deposits on the vessel walls.

Modifying Another Word

• especially: Absorption of food, especially fatty foods cannot take place, producing bulky foul smelling, frequent stools.
• too: I think it's good to eat not too healthy or too fatty food - just normal food.
• much: There are concerns that young children are eating too much fatty junk food, and adopting " couch potato " lifestyles.
• very: Beware of meat products like beefburgers and sausages which are very fatty, choose low-fat varieties whenever possible.
• particularly: My diet is ok, I dont eat loads of vegetables although I do eat some and my diet is not particularly fatty.
• rather: At 6pm, gorged myself on some rather fatty belly of pork.

Noun used with modifier

• long-chain: Studies are needed to determine the diet and lifestyle patterns that enhance ALA conversion to the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.
• omega-3: Modification of plant lipids for human health: development of functional land-based omega-3 fatty acids.
• trans: We do not need the trans fatty acids in processed foods.
• chain: Equivalent enzymes for shorter chain fatty acids are soluble proteins of the mitochondrial matrix.
• plasma: Red cell and plasma fatty acid changes accompanying symptom remission in a patient with schizophrenia treated with eicosapentaenoic acid.
• cell: Classification of fluorescent soft rot Pseudomonas bacteria, including P. marginalis strains, using whole cell fatty acid analysis.