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Definition of Obesity

1. Noun. More than average fatness.

Definition of Obesity

1. n. The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

Definition of Obesity

1. Noun. the state of being obese due to an excess of body fat ¹

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Definition of Obesity

1. the state or condition of being obese [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Obesity

1. An increase in body weight beyond the limitation of skeletal and physical requirement, as the result of an excessive accumulation of fat in the body. Origin: L. Obesus = fat This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Obesity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"obesity. Corpulence, an excessive development of the bodily fat—an ... First, there are persons of both sexes who have an hereditary tendency to obesity. ..."

2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"obesity is the result of a long-continued disproportion between the amount of fat consumed and that metabolized. It has already been pointed out that ..."

3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"In some nations and families obesity is hereditary, and generations come and go ... Treatment Of obesity.—Many persons, the most famous of whom was Banting, ..."

4. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1921)
"Fucus vesiculosus, variously known as bladderwrack, sea-wrack, kelp-ware and sea-oak, has also been used in many instances as an ingredient of obesity cures ..."

5. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"A. THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF obesity Two different principal types of obesity ... By exogenous obesity, Lorand understands the obesity of big eaters—that which ..."

6. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Burden of Suffering: obesity has been defined as being 20% or more above desirable body weight.1 Increasingly, body mass index (body weight in kilograms ..."

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