Adiposity
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
The word adiposity applies to local fat accumulation in tissue. Adiposity is found most frequently in certain tissue in the body, more commonly in women than in men, at the shoulders, hips and buttocks.
The excessively high proliferation of fat cells or adipocytes is designated by the term adipose, and results in an increased volume of adipose tissue or hypertrophy.
Adiposity can be classified into 3 categories: adiposity or plethora of Marañon, adiposity found in some robust women at the menopause pale adiposity of Marañon, adiposity found in thin, tired women at the menopause and Babinski-Frölich adiposogenital syndrome, corresponding to very high localized obesity on the trunk and at the base of the members, associated with a host of other symptoms.
An aesthetic or plastic surgery procedure, liposuction or lipoaspiration, can be performed by specialist doctors to reduce adiposity.
Adiposity may evolve towards the formation of a hypodermic nodule called localized cutaneous lipoma. Lipoma may be single or multiple. Single lipoma is more likely to appear in adulthood. There are also specific clinical forms depending on age. Most of the time treatment is by excision of the lipoma.