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 ...

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Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009 They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings. Examples are: * ''Intraarticular fat pads''. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells. A

fat pad sign The fat pad sign, also known as the sail sign, is a potential finding on elbow radiography which suggests a fracture (bone), fracture of one or more bones at the elbow. It is may indicate an occult fracture that is not directly visible. Its name ...

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 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 majo ...

, 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 *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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