beige fat

noun

Etymology

From being a color between brown and white, closer to white.

Definitions

  1. A form of brown fat which can function akin to white fat under normal circumstances, but…

    A form of brown fat which can function akin to white fat under normal circumstances, but can function as brown fat under cold conditions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beige fat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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