A medical condition characterized by abnormal accumulation of fat or fatty degeneration in the body.
From Latin 'adiposus' (fatty) plus the Greek medical suffix '-osis' (condition or disease). This combines into a clinical term describing pathological fat accumulation.
The suffix '-osis' is medicine's favorite way to turn anything into a disease—add it to 'adipos' and suddenly you've got a formal diagnosis instead of just 'getting fat,' which shows how language shapes how we think about health.
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