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fat pad (aka
haversian gland) is a mass of closely packed
surrounded by fibrous tissue septa.
[ TheFreeDictionary > Fat pad Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009] They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings.
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Intraarticular fat pads. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells.
[ A fat pad sign is an elevation of the anterior and posterior fat pads of the elbow joint, and suggests the presence of an occult fracture.
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Buccal fat pad can be seen in nursing babies.
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The fat pad of the labia majora, which can be used as a graft, often as a so-called "Martius labial fat pad graft", which can be used, for example, in urethrolysis.
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Fat pads within the heels which when they get inflamed can cause heel pad syndrome
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The pads under the balls of the feet.
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The eight pairs of focal fat pads running from the armpit to the groin found in all lean women and men in a curved linear arrangement identical to the mammary ridge lines seen in human embryos.
