1. 1肥胖;肥胖症(醫療/公衛用語)

    Obesity is the state of being very fat in a way that is unhealthy — the noun that sits beside the adjective obese. You hear it in medicine, public-health news, and school biology: childhood obesity, obesity rates, the obesity epidemic (a common, slightly dramatic newspaper phrase). It names a condition, not a person: we say people living with obesity more often now, rather than calling someone “an obesity.” It is formal; friends do not usually each other with this word.

core核心畫面

組成From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus “fat.” On the surface: obese + -ity (the suffix that makes a noun of a quality).

同家族的字

  • obesethe adjective this noun is built from
  • obesogenicsame obese stem: likely to cause obesity

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obesitynoun/ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/

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    medicinepathologysciencesThe state of being obese.

    • The fowls, ducks, and goats all looked fat and thriving on the refuse food of a dense population, and the Chinamen's pigs were in a state of obesity that foreboded early death.
    • While the majority of individuals with severe obesity are able to maintain eucapnia, a significant minority will develop obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), characterized by alveolar hypoventilation (PaCO 2 > 45 mmHg) unexplained by other disorders.

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