fat body

fat body

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A food reserve of fatty tissue in the larval stages of certain insects.
A mass of fatty tissue located near the genital glands in some amphibians, including the frogs and toads.

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The fat-body is therefore the seat of important metabolic processes in the hexapod body.
This cavity contains an irregular mass of whitish tissue, the fat-body, consisting of fat-cells which undergo degradation and become more or less filled with urates.
Von Wielowiejski (1882), of cells similar to those of the fat-body, containing a substance that undergoes oxidation.

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