- 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.
From the word’s history
From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus 'fat'.
源自法文 obésité，來自拉丁文 obēsus「胖的」。
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
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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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