OBESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obese mean? 

• OBESE (adjective)
  The adjective OBESE has 1 sense:

1. excessively fat

  Familiarity information: OBESE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBESE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessively fat

Synonyms:

corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty

Context example:

a weighty man

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Derivation:

obesity (more than average fatness)

 Context examples 

Children who are overweight or obese are more likely to become obese adults, and have an increased risk of poorer health outcomes in later life including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

Being obese increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and some cancers.

(Obesity, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

White adipose tissue showed the greatest number of changes in response to exercise in the obese pregnant mouse, being restored to a state similar to that seen in the tissue of non-obese mothers.

(Exercise in pregnancy improves health of obese mothers by restoring their tissues, University of Cambridge)

Obese mothers in the study tended to have lower folate levels than normal weight mothers.

(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)

Obese and overweight mean that your weight is greater than it should be for your health.

(Body Weight, NIH)

However, enhanced in vivo enzymatic activity is only detected after alcohol consumption or in obese individuals.

(CYP2E1*1 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, METAP2 inhibition also down-regulates ERK1/2 signaling pathway, which is usually overactive in the fat tissues of obese people.

(Beloranib, NCI Thesaurus)

Children who were overweight but not obese (BMI in the 85-94th percentile) also had a 17-percent increased asthma risk compared to healthy-weight peers.

(Obesity May Be to Blame for Quarter of Asthma Cases in Children, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Children born to women who have high blood levels of lead are more likely be overweight or obese, compared to those whose mothers have low levels of lead in their blood.

(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)

Children grow at different rates, so it isn't always easy to know when a child is obese or overweight.

(Obesity in Children, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)