obese

adj
/oʊˈbis/US/əʊˈbiːs/UK

Etymology

From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“to devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“to eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).

  1. derived from obēsus

Definitions

  1. Extremely overweight, especially

    Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

    • The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.
  2. A person who is obese.

    • Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.
    • Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at obese. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at obese. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at obese

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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