{{Short description|Encapsulated adipose tissue}} A '''fat pad''' (aka '''haversian gland''') is a mass of closely packed fat cells surrounded by fibrous tissue septa.<ref name=mosby>[http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fat+pad TheFreeDictionary > Fat pad] Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009</ref> They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings.<ref name=mosby/>
Examples are: * ''Intraarticular fat pads''. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells.<ref name=mosby/> 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 can be seen in nursing babies.<ref name=mosby/> * The fat pad of the labia majora, which can be used as a graft, often as a so-called "Martius labial fat pad graft", which can be used, for example, in urethrolysis.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carey JM, Chon JK, Leach GE | title = Urethrolysis with Martius labial fat pad graft for iatrogenic bladder outlet obstruction | journal = Urology | volume = 61 | issue = 4 Suppl 1 | pages = 21–25 | date = April 2003 | pmid = 12657357 | doi = 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00117-1 }}</ref> *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.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Teplica D, Kovich G, Srock J, Whitaker R, Jeffers E, Wagstaff DA | title = Newly Identified Gross Human Anatomy: Eight Paired Vestigial Breast Mounds Run along the Embryological Mammary Ridges in Lean Adults | journal = Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open | volume = 9 | issue = 10 | article-number = e3863 | date = October 2021 | pmid = 34667697 | pmc = 8517303 | doi = 10.1097/GOX.0000000000003863 }}</ref>
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