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The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
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metabolism
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was a post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international exposure during CIAM 's 1959 meeting and its ideas were tentatively tested by students ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context physiology English) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metabolism \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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals [syn: metamorphosis ] the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life [syn: metabolic process , metastasis ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE lipid ▪ The apoprotein components of the lipoproteins are also demonstrated in view of the recent realisation of their importance in lipid metabolism . ▪ This might reduce the length of exposure to the atherogenic ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in physiology sense, 1878, from French métabolisme , from Greek metabole "a change," from metaballein "to change," from meta- "over" (see meta- ) + ballein "to throw" (see ballistics ).
Usage examples of metabolism.
This would mean, according to our present understanding of heredity, an inherited abnormality in one or more enzyme systems and a metabolism that is therefore disordered in some specific manner.
She offered cauf, but he refused, fearing the effect any stimulant might have on his confused metabolism.
We heard the Demarchy had tailored the sulphur-based metabolism of the ventlings for human use.
My guess would be that uranium salts act as a catalytic agent in the processes of metabolism and digestion, somewhat as some of our own ductless gland secretions.
Chiefly, that by generating your own energy you, the animal, have a higher rate of metabolism and so can be more active for longer periods than ectothermic animals, which need prolonged periods of warming up in the sun.
This was dramatically demonstrated in a study of equilin metabolism in endometrial tissue taken from postmenopausal women.
The miniature transceiver built into the sides of the sheath probed the grass with sonics to analyze its molecular structure, then broadcast the data to Fess, who determined if any of the molecules were incompatible with human metabolism.
Hereditary galactose metabolism defects can be controlled through enzyme synthesis.
As far as its effect on carbohydrate metabolism is concerned, epinephrine resembles glucagon in hastening the breakdown of glycogen to glucose so that the blood level of glucose rises.
To Iome, with her six endowments of metabolism, the gree hawk did not seem to present much of a threat, but to a commoner it would have seemed to be flitting about at lightning speed.
Rose, S P R, and Csillag, A Passive avoidance training results in lasting changes in deoxyglucose metabolism in left hemispheric regions of chick brain.
Like his animal self, the quoll was in constant motion, willing landlord of a metabolism set permanently on overdrive.
Her metabolism seemed to mind warmth no more than it had subarctic cold.
In the four-letter classification system the first letter was a guide to the general metabolism, the second to the number and distribution of limbs and sense organs, and the rest to a combination of pressure and gravity requirements, which also gave an indication of the physical mass and form of protective tegument a being possessed.
The Yeep, with their narrow-range, starch-oriented metabolism, depended almost entirely on the puffdocks for a food supply.