CORPULENCE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 18

n. Koarp'u2l-e11ns. Gr., iravva/nos, evo-apxta. Lat., corpulent i a. Fr., c. Ger., Fleischigkeit, VVohlbeleibtheit, Corpulenz. It., corpulenza. Sp.. corpulencia. The state of the body in which the subcutaneous fat is exce ive. Anaemic c. C. due to anaemia. [I, 20.] [s. 414]