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Surgery that removes fat cells so loyally they never, ever come back.
means A cosmetic surgical procedure that suctions excess fat deposits out of the body through small incisions, using a tube and a vacuum device.
from A 20th-century compound built from Greek-via-Latin parts: 'lipo-' from Greek 'lipos' meaning fat, fused with 'suction' from Latin 'sugere,' to suck. The fat-removal technique itself was refined in the late 1970s by French and Italian surgeons who pioneered the cannula-and-vacuum method still used today; the word simply names the procedure for exactly what it does.
- cell count
- removes fat cells permanently, not just shrinks them
- not weight loss
- regain happens elsewhere, since treated areas stay fat-cell-free
- fluid math
- surgeons can suction several liters of fat per session
- oldest trick
- first attempts in the 1920s ended in gangrene, not glamour