Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The condition or quality of being obese or corpulent; corpulency; polysarcia adiposa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being obese; excessive body weight; incumbrance of flesh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
obese due to an excess of body fat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun more than average fatness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indeed, I have previously proposed that the rise in obesity is more closely related to the mental [...]
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Recognising Barriers Key to Obesity Management? 2009
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As with other chronic diseases, our challenge in obesity is not how to get patients to start treatment - the challenge is how to get patients to stick with the treatment forever.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Needs Treatment Forever 2008
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However, Betty Sherry, the CDC obesity expert, told me that overweight was the terminology more accepted for childrenalthough thats being debatedto help avoid the stigma of the term obesity.
Young Runners Marc Bloom 2009
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The term obesity was constructed by the medical community, Kwan says.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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But Good feels remorse for his part in what he calls the obesity of the time.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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But Good feels remorse for his part in what he calls the obesity of the time.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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But Good feels remorse for his part in what he calls the obesity of the time.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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I, of course, talked about how obesity is one of the root causes of most chronic diseases and that we are not about to see an end to the increase in obesity-related health costs, because we devote virtually no resources to actually treating obesity - health professionals have little training or incentives to deliver obesity treatments, prescription drugs for obesity are still not covered by most plans, availability of obesity surgery remains several orders of magnitude below the actual demand.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Pathways to Business Health 2008
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What's more, "obesity" is neither a bona fide medical diagnosis nor a dummy variable (e.g., the way that "diabetes" or "HIV+" are).
Do the Overweight Pull Their Weight?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The men in this study (n = 17) understand the word obesity differently from the clinical definition; "obesity" was used as a description of those with fat in a central distribution, and understandings of the term commonly take into account fitness as well as weight.
oroboros commented on the word obesity
Sounds like the letters O B C T.
October 28, 2009