Hibernoma

This is a benign tumor of brown fat. "Hiber-" means winter, and this is the fat that warms to bring bears out of hibernation. Everybody has some, and you can recognize it (in health or as a tumor) because its cells have several vacuoles and pink mitochondria between the vacuoles.

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