INTEGUMENTERY SYSTEM
INTEGUMENTERY SYSTEM MISCELLENOUS
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Question
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Using your prefixes/suffixes, which of the following is a fat cell?
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hypocyte
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lipocyte
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lukocyte
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myocyte
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Prefix. adipo-(anatomy, medicine, usually) fat, as fat tissue or fat cells. (anatomy, medicine) fat, as a form of lipid, either contained in such tissue, free/unbound, or carried in circulation by lipoproteins.
Detailed explanation-2: -As an adjective, adipose means “fatty, relating to fat.” As a noun, adipose is animal fat stored in the fatty tissue of the body. Adipose is based on the Latin adip-(a form of the word adeps used to create new words) and-ōsus, meaning “full of, abounding in” and source of the English suffixes-ose and-ous.
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