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Fat body cell
Fat body cell: the principal cell (trophocyte) of the insect fat body, an adipose- and liver-like tissue storing lipids, glycogen, and proteins, mediating immunity and detoxification, and signaling to the brain; distinct from mammalian adipocytes.
Fat Bottomed Girls
Fat Bottomed Girls: 1978 Queen song from the album Jazz, written by Brian May in drop D tuning, released as a double A-side with Bicycle Race; peaked at UK number 11.
Fat Choi Spirit (呖咕呖咕新年财)
Fat Choi Spirit (呖咕呖咕新年财) is a 2002 Hong Kong comedy directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Andy Lau as a mahjong master whose luck collapses.
Fat content of milk
The fat content of milk is the percentage of butterfat it contains, about 3 to 4 percent in cow milk, and a key measure of dairy quality and pricing.
Fat distillation residues
Fat distillation residues are the non-distillable fatty by-product of industrial fat and oil splitting, an EU low-risk pesticide active substance (CIPAC 915) used as an odour-based game repellent paste protecting tree seedlings, approved 2023 to 2038 with a nickel limit of 0.1 g/kg.
Fat Dog (band)
Fat Dog is a South London dance-punk band formed around 2020 by Joe Love, known for a latex-masked drummer, klezmer-techno sound, the Kennel fanbase, and Domino albums WOOF. (2024) and Cancel Me (I'm Tired) (2026).
Fat embolism syndrome
Fat embolism syndrome (FES): fat globules entering the circulation after long-bone fractures, orthopedic surgery, or cosmetic fat procedures, causing the triad of hypoxia, neurological dysfunction, and petechial rash 24–72 hours after injury; diagnosis by Gurd criteria, supportive care.
Fat fetishism
Fat fetishism, or fat admiration (adipophilia), is sexual attraction to fat or obese bodies; its subculture feederism eroticizes feeding and weight gain, with feeders and feedees, and is not itself a DSM-5 paraphilic disorder.
Fat Freddy's Drop
Fat Freddy's Drop: Wellington, New Zealand eight-piece dub, soul, reggae, and jazz band formed 1999 on its own label The Drop; debut album Based On A True Story (2005) and the 2026 anniversary tour after DJ MU's death.
Fat Friends
Fat Friends: ITV comedy drama (2000-2005, four series, 25 episodes) by Kay Mellor about a Leeds slimming club, starring Alison Steadman and Ruth Jones, launching Corden and Jones's Gavin & Stacey partnership.
Fat Girl
Fat Girl (À ma sœur!), Catherine Breillat's 2001 French drama about sisters Anaïs and Elena on a seaside holiday; premiered at Berlin 2001, refused classification in Ontario, later a New French Extremity landmark.
Fat hydrogenation
Fat hydrogenation is the industrial process of adding hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils over a metal catalyst to make solid fats; partial hydrogenation produces harmful trans fats.
Fat hypertrophy
Fat hypertrophy (ICD-11 EF02.0, insulin-induced lipohypertrophy) is focal enlargement of subcutaneous fat from enlarged adipocytes, caused by repeated insulin injections, corticosteroids, or antiretrovirals, and impairing insulin absorption.
Fat interesterification
Fat interesterification, which yields interesterified oils, rearranges fatty acids on triglycerides without changing their composition, enabling trans-free margarine, shortenings, and cocoa butter alternatives; chemical and enzymatic routes exist.
Fat Joe
Fat Joe (Joseph Antonio Cartagena, b. 1970) is a Bronx rapper of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad member, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, with hits "Flow Joe," "What's Luv?", No. 1 "Lean Back," and 5 Grammy nominations.
Fat Juicy & Wet
Fat Juicy & Wet is a January 24, 2025 single by Sexyy Red and Bruno Mars, their first collaboration, produced by Mars and The Stereotypes; it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 32 in the UK, with Lady Gaga and Rosé cameos in the video.
Fat Leonard scandal
Fat Leonard scandal: Leonard Glenn Francis, Malaysian owner of Singapore's Glenn Defense Marine Asia, bribed US Navy officers and overbilled port services, defrauding about $34-35 million; 35 charged, 15-year sentence in 2024.
Fat Lever
Fat Lever (Lafayette Lever, born 1960) is a retired NBA guard from Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Denver Nuggets star 1984-90, 17.0 ppg, franchise steals leader, No. 12 retired 2017, not in Hall of Fame.
Fat Lips Surfshop
Fat Lips Surfshop, Siargao surf shop and rental store in General Luna, Philippines, founded 2015 by Tim Paddon; oldest surf shop on the island, over 100 rental boards, Honda bike fleet, surf lodge, authorized FCS and GoPro dealer.
Fat Man
Fat Man, also known as the Nagasaki atomic bomb, was the plutonium implosion bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, the second nuclear weapon used in war.
Fat Man and Little Boy (film)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), also released in the UK as Shadow Makers, is Roland Joffé's drama about the Manhattan Project, starring Paul Newman as General Groves and Dwight Schultz as Oppenheimer; a critical and commercial failure.
Fat Mike
Fat Mike (Michael John Burkett) is NOFX's bassist, singer, and cofounder and founder of Fat Wreck Chords; led Punkvoter, co-founded the Punk Rock Museum, and retired NOFX in 2024.
Fat necrosis of breast
Fat necrosis of the breast, also called breast fat necrosis, is a benign inflammatory process of breast fat caused by trauma, surgery, biopsy, or radiation that mimics breast cancer on exam and imaging; diagnosed mainly by mammography, it carries no increased cancer risk.
Fat Old Sun
Fat Old Sun: Pink Floyd song written and sung by David Gilmour on Atom Heart Mother (1970); pastoral acoustic track with church bells, Gilmour on nearly all instruments, Wright on organ; revived on Gilmour's 2001-2006 solo tours.
Fat pad sign
Fat pad sign (sail sign): radiographic displacement of the elbow's intracapsular anterior and posterior fat pads by joint effusion, indicating occult fracture after trauma; posterior pad visibility is always abnormal.
Fat Papi
Fat Papi, also known as Baban Hussain, is a New Zealand rapper of Kurdish descent whose 2026 single "Freaked Out" made him the first Kurdish artist on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fat pope, thin pope
"Fat pope, thin pope" is an Italian adage holding that cardinals elect a pope with a markedly different style from his predecessor, often attributed unverified to John XXIII.
Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) is the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, opening the final week of Carnival before Lent. Best known in Poland for eating pączki, about 100 million doughnuts sold that day; distinct from Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Fat Tony (The Simpsons)
Fat Tony (Marion Anthony D'Amico, alias William Williams) is the recurring Springfield Mafia boss in The Simpsons, voiced by Joe Mantegna and introduced in "Bart the Murderer".
Fat tree
A fat tree is a data center network topology arranging commodity switches as a Clos network, adapted for data centers in a 2008 paper by Al-Fares, Loukissas, and Vahdat.