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Metabolism   Listen
noun
Metabolism  n.  (Physiol.)
1.
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 enzymes. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (catabolism).
2.
(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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"Metabolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... bloom and substantiality. These were the triumphs for which Nancy lived. Her only regret was that she was not able to give to each her personal time and attention, and establish herself on a footing with her patrons where she might learn from their own lips the secrets of their metabolism. ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

... found either Jimmie or his companion to be guilty of malfeasance in office. But at least one item of more or less worried debate was eliminated. He need no longer weigh mere surface gentility against the stern demands of an active metabolism. A shave cost a quarter. Twenty cents would not buy a shave, but it would buy at the cafeteria something more needful to any one but ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Metabolism" :   metabolic process, hemimetabolism, heterometaboly, metabolic, organic process, destructive metabolism, organism, respiration, Krebs cycle, basal metabolism, anabolism, metamorphosis, holometabolism, being, dissimilation, inborn error of metabolism



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