steatopygia
IPA: stˈitoʊpʌdʒʌ
noun
- An excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks.
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Examples of "steatopygia" in Sentences
- Reminds me of a pregnant woman with steatopygia.
- Chip Ahoy: if you were inclined to check another word, try 'steatopygia'.
- Steatopygia , is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks.
- Rear seats are cramped, boot space is compromised and the bulging rear end gives them a bad case of steatopygia eh?
- True steatopygia only exists among Bushman and Hottentot women, and among the peoples who are by blood connected with them.
- These focused on her physical characteristics, including her pronounced steatopygia (an accumulation of fat on the buttocks).
- This barely noticeable backward thrust of the legs also enhances the impression of protruding buttocks, the technical term for which is steatopygia, defined as an excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks.
- It is certainly not an accidental coincidence that it is precisely among people of black race that we find a simulation of the large pelvis of the higher races admired and cultivated in the form of steatopygia.
- The women have such pronounced "steatopygia" that a mother who needs to carry her toddler on her back will have the child throw his arms around her neck and stand on her remarkably protuberant, gravity-defying buttocks.
- The spine is in Spain very curved, producing what is termed _ensellure_, or saddle-back -- a characteristic which gives great flexibility to the back and prominence to the gluteal regions, sometimes slightly simulating steatopygia.
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