FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

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FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan) , the name given to certain animal and vegetable products which are oily solids at

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

temperatures, and are chemically distinguished as being the glyceryl esters of various fatty acids, of which the most important are stearic, palmitic, and oleic; it is to be noticed that they are non-nitrogenous. Fat is a normal constituent of animal

tissue

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

, being found even before

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
from the root of the verb " to bear ")

; it occurs especially in the intra-muscular, the abdominal and the subcutaneous connective tissues. In the vegetable kingdom fats especially occur in the seeds and fruits, and sometimes in the roots. Physiological subjects concerned with the

part

PART

played by fats in living animals are treated in the articles CONNECTIVE TISSUE4; NUTRITION;

CORPULENCE

CORPULENCE (Lat. corpus, body), or OBESITY (Lat. ob, against, and edere, to eat)

; METABOLIC DISEASES. The fats are chemically similar to the fixed

oils

OILS (adopted from the Fr. oile, mod. huile, Lat. oleum,
olive
- OLIVE (Olea europaea)
oil)

, from which they are roughly distinguished by being solids and not liquids (see

OILs

OILS (adopted from the Fr. oile, mod. huile, Lat. oleum,
olive
- OLIVE (Olea europaea)
oil)

). While all fats have received industrial applications, foremost importance must be accorded to the fats of the domestic animalsthe sheep, cow, ox and calf. These, which are extracted from the bones and skins in the first operation in the manufacture of glue, are the raw materials of the soap, candle and glycerin

industries

INDUSTRIES

.

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