brown adipose tissue
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brown adipose tissue (countable and uncountable, plural brown adipose tissues)
- One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primary serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.
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