brown adipose tissue

English

Noun

brown adipose tissue (countable and uncountable, plural brown adipose tissues)

1. (anatomy, physiology) One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.

Synonyms

• BAT
• brown fat

Coordinate terms

• white adipose tissue
• beige fat
• fat

Related terms

• white adipose tissue
• adipose tissue
• adipose
• tissue