OBESITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obesity mean? 

• OBESITY (noun)
  The noun OBESITY has 1 sense:

1. more than average fatness

  Familiarity information: OBESITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBESITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More than average fatness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity

Hypernyms ("obesity" is a kind of...):

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness (excess bodily weight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "obesity"):

adiposis; corpulence; overweight; stoutness (the property of excessive fatness)

exogenous obesity (obesity caused by overeating)

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness (the bodily property of being well rounded)

Derivation:

obese (excessively fat)

 Context examples 

It also helps prevent obesity and weight-related diseases, such as diabetes.

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

But now it is becoming more common in children and teens, due to more obesity.

(Diabetes in Children and Teens, NIH)

A synthetic oil with anti-obesity activity.

(Diacylglycerol, NCI Thesaurus)

Diethylpropion hydrochloride is used in the treatment of obesity.

(Diethylpropion Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

These may include disorders such as high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight or obesity, diabetes.

(Cardiac Rehabilitation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The researchers are conducting further work to understand how omega-3s and other fatty acids in the diet might affect the risk of developing diabetes, obesity, cancers, and other conditions.

(Omega-3s linked with lower risk of fatal heart attacks, NIH)

More experiments are needed to prove overweight and obesity directly cause changes that lead to asthma because scientists don't completely understand how or why this would occur.

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

Clinical manifestations include truncal obesity with thin extremities, thinning of the skin, osteoporosis, and a tendency to bruise easily.

(ACTH-Producing Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Fenfluramine, which was part of the Fen-Phen anti-obesity medication, stimulates the release of serotonin from vesicular storage, and modulates serotonin transporter function.

(Fenfluramine, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with both hypertension and obesity.

(GNB3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)