About The Word Metabolism
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Metabolism
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What's The Definition Of Metabolism?
[n] the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
[n] the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals Synonyms | Synonyms for Metabolism: metabolic process | metamorphosis | metastasis Related Terms | Find terms related to Metabolism: assimilation | avatar | basal metabolism | catabolism | catalysis | consubstantiation | displacement | heterotopia | metagenesis | metamorphism | metamorphosis | metastasis | metathesis | metempsychosis | mutant | mutated form | mutation | permutation | reincarnation | sport | transanimation | transfiguration | transfigurement | transformation | transformism | translation | translocation | transmigration | transmogrification | transmutation | transposition | transubstantiation See Also | anabolism | basal metabolic rate | basal metabolism | biological process | BMR | catabolism | cellular respiration | citric acid cycle | constructive metabolism | destructive metabolism | dissimilation | fat metabolism | glycolysis | internal respiration | katabolism | Krebs citric acid cycle | Krebs cycle | organic process | respiration | tricarboxylic acid cycle Metabolism In Webster's Dictionary \Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.)
The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up
and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive
material brought to them by the blood, or by which they
transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances,
which are fitted either for excretion or for some special
purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments.
Hence, metabolism may be either constructive ({anabolism}),
or destructive ({katabolism}).
\Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Biol.) The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated. |
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