A dark-coloured adipose tissue with many blood vessels, involved in the rapid production of heat in hibernating animals and human babies.
棕脂组织，肩胛间腺
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They may be composed purely of mature adipocytes, or of brown fat, or of adipocytes in combination with mature smooth muscle and vascular elements (angiomyolipoma).
Scientists have measured higher rates of bodily heat production only in the flight muscles of some insects and, possibly, the brown fat of hamsters.
Unlike normal white fat that stores surplus energy, brown fat generates heat in response to cold or excess caloric intake.
Definition of brown fat in US English:
brown fat
nounbroun fat
A dark-colored adipose tissue with many blood vessels, involved in the rapid production of heat in hibernating animals and human babies.
棕脂组织，肩胛间腺
Example sentencesExamples
Unlike normal white fat that stores surplus energy, brown fat generates heat in response to cold or excess caloric intake.
They may be composed purely of mature adipocytes, or of brown fat, or of adipocytes in combination with mature smooth muscle and vascular elements (angiomyolipoma).
Scientists have measured higher rates of bodily heat production only in the flight muscles of some insects and, possibly, the brown fat of hamsters.