nonobese

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adjective

Not obese; free of symptoms of obesity

OriginEnglish obese ← Middle English non- ← Old English nān- →
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Meanings

adjectivenonobese (not comparable)

alternative non-obese

  1. not comparablemedicineNot obese; free of symptoms of obesity

    Tyrosine kinase inhibitors reverse type 1 diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice .

    2008 December 14, Alexei V. Korennykh et al., “The unfolded protein response signals through high-order assembly of Ire1”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7230, →DOI, pages 687–693

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Englishobese
  15. Englishnonobese

From non- + obese.

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APA

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Chicago

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