What's the difference between fat and lat?

Fat


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
  • (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
  • (superl.) Abounding with fat
  • (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
  • (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
  • (superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
  • (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
  • (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
  • (superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
  • (superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
  • (n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
  • (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
  • (n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
  • (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
  • (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (2) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (3) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (4) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (5) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
  • (6) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
  • (7) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
  • (8) The relationship of weight history with current fat distribution was also explored.
  • (9) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
  • (10) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (11) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (12) Assuming 1 kg LBM to contain 52.1 mmol potassium, the mean LBM was 3028 g in the I-NSM and 2739 in the I-SM; mean fat mass was similar in both groups.
  • (13) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (14) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
  • (15) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
  • (16) Computed Tomography was used to demonstrate the increased retro-orbital fat.
  • (17) The results obtained on fat cell membranes from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue demonstrated the following.
  • (18) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
  • (19) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
  • (20) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.

Lat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To let; to allow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) LATS was measured with the double isotope technique in IgG serum concentrates of 23 patients with Graves' disease before treatment and of 18 patients during treatment with carbimazole and triiodothyronine.
  • (2) More importantly, this study reports the first detection of LAT in RNA extracted from 9% of corneas from latently infected rabbits (n = 22) by the polymerase chain reaction.
  • (3) Conversely, MS patients, especially those in AF, appear to be at high risk of harboring an LAT.
  • (4) Out of 50 consecutive untreated patients with diffuse toxic goitre 15 showed long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS), 30 showed LATS protector only, and five showed neither.
  • (5) VO2max and lactate threshold workload (LaT) of six subjects were assessed on a Monark ergometer.
  • (6) The number of herpes simplex virus (HSV) genome equivalents recovered from latently infected mouse spinal ganglia was compared with the proportion of neurons containing latency-associated transcripts (LATs).
  • (7) The serum levels of LATS and thyroid hormones were high.
  • (8) latex agglutination test (LAT), two indirect hemagglutination tests (IHAT) (Carter-Wallace, USA and Ismunit, Italy), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
  • (9) Using herpes simplex viruses deleted and restored for the latency-associated transcripts (LATs), we have quantitatively assessed the role of the transcripts in establishment and maintenance of latent infection.
  • (10) These results indicate that HSV-1 LAT expression is not an absolute requirement for establishment of the latent state.
  • (11) The cAMP-PDE activity in the thyroid significantly increased in both the LATS and TSH groups, but the cGMP-PDE activity was unchanged.
  • (12) Furthermore, LAT effectively inhibits transactivation of gene expression by infected-cell polypeptide 0 in transient transfection assays.
  • (13) We evaluated two LATs (Accu-Staph; Carr-Scarborough, Decatur, Ga.; Staphaurex; Wellcome, Dartford, England) with particular emphasis on their ability to correctly identify oxacillin-resistant S. aureus.
  • (14) There is strong evidence in favour of the hypothesis that lat molecules function as components of the T receptor for self Ia proteins in a I-restricted manner.
  • (15) Actually, positive rate in LAT was higher than that in DP among clinical specimens in which M. pneumoniae was detected by culture method.
  • (16) When 3-5 volumes of 0.5% Rivanol solution were mixed to serum containing TSH or LATS activity, LATS activity remained mainly with IgG in the supernatant fraction.
  • (17) All of these features of the LATs in humans are consistent with those reported in rabbits and mice and further validate the animal models of human HSV-1 infection.
  • (18) The long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS) has been thought to be responsible for the hyperthyroidism of Graves's disease.
  • (19) Demonstration of LATS in the serum, slightly increased serum-triiodothyronine-levels, failure of normal response to TRH and an abnormal triiodothyronine-suppression test in euthyroid ophthalmopathy may herald the manifestation of hyperthyroidism at some later time.
  • (20) Most patients have elevated levels of LATS in their serum; however, this appears to be a marker for the disease, rather than a cause.

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