Crossword clues for anabolic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anabolic \An`a*bol"ic\, a. [Gr. ? something heaped up; ? + ? a stroke.] (Physiol.) Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the process of building up (especially in metabolism)," 1876, from Greek anabole "that which is thrown up; a mound," from anaballein "to throw or toss up," from ana "up, upward" (see ana-) + ballein "to throw" (see ballistics).
Wiktionary
a. Of, or concerning anabolism. n. An anabolic steroid.
WordNet
adj. of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism
characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism; "some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily" [ant: catabolic]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "anabolic".
In a series of raids On team cars, French police found trunkloads of EPO and anabolic steroids.
Bones washed off the blood and closed the wound with the anabolic proto-plaster.
Bones could work the business-end of the anabolic protoplaser in close enough to heal the slashed vena cava.
I occasionally tried standing up, stretching, swivelling like Olympic atheletes do after gulping their anabolic steroids before track events, but you get fed up with fitness so I sat down again.
Anyone who wanted to be the best at javelin, hammer, shot or discus needed the kind of muscle that anabolic steroids could provide a lot more easily than training.
It is also supposed that the metabolic changes consist of two phases, the upward, constructive, or anabolic phase, and the downward, destructive, or katabolic phase.
Various visual substances by their anabolic or katabolic changes are supposed to produce the variations of sensation of light and colour.
There were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medication, anabolic steroids, including a full course of prednisone, and at least ten different types of pain medication, including codeine and morphine.
So it happened that only Bernice noticed the skateboarding punk-rocker of an Elder God on anabolic steroids who was accelerating ominously towards them from way back down the boulevard, sparks grating from the skateboard wheels, squatting in a kind of schuss position and gnashing her ominously long, needle-sharp teeth.
At first he zylphed only the physiological complexities of his own body, the flow of blood through minuscule capillaries, the slow catabolic attrition of dying cells, their anabolic replacement He advanced the setting another notch, until he sensed Madame Carnot's presence in the same field.
We still use the film of them being pressure hosed by a terrified SWAT team as promo footage for our line of introductory anabolics.
His hands were massive enough to juggle cantaloupes, and a single letter was tattooed on the base phalange of each finger, thumbs excluded, to spell out ANABOLIC, as in ANABOLIC steroid.
Whoever he was, the sonofabitch had flushed Pedro's anabolic steroids down the John.
And now here he was, lecturing Pedro Luz about the perils of anabolic steroids.
Some brand of anabolic steroids to build them up physically, give them muscle.