A fat pad (aka haversian gland) is a mass of closely packed
fat cell
Adipocytes, also known as lipocytes and fat cells, are the cells that primarily compose adipose tissue, specialized in storing energy as fat. Adipocytes are derived from mesenchymal stem cells which give rise to adipocytes through adipogenesis. I ...
s surrounded by fibrous tissue septa.
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Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009 They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings.
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Examples are:
* ''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.
* ]Buccal fat pad
The buccal fat pad (also called Bichat’s fat pad, after Xavier Bichat, and the buccal pad of fat) is one of several encapsulated fat masses in the cheek. It is a deep fat pad located on either side of the face between the buccinator muscle and s ...
can be seen in nursing babies.[
* The fat pad of the ]labia majora
The labia majora (singular: ''labium majus'') are two prominent longitudinal cutaneous folds that extend downward and backward from the mons pubis to the perineum. Together with the labia minora they form the labia of the vulva.
The labia maj ...
, which can be used as a graft
Graft or grafting may refer to:
*Graft (politics), a form of political corruption
* Graft, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
Science and technology
*Graft (surgery), a surgical procedure
*Grafting, the joining of plant t ...
, often as a so-called "Martius labial fat pad graft", which can be used, for example, in urethrolysis.
*Fat pads within the heels which when they get inflamed can cause heel pad syndrome
Heel pad syndrome is a pain that occurs in the center of the heel. It is typically due to atrophy of the fat pad which makes up the heel. Risk factors include obesity. Other conditions with similar symptoms include plantar fasciitis. Treatment inc ...
*The pads under the balls of the feet.
*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.
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