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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
metabolic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
metabolic rate (=the rate at which the body changes food into energy)
▪ Metabolic rate rises with any form of activity.
metabolic syndrome
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acidosis
▪ Use of diuretics that increase the urinary excretion of bicarbonate can cause metabolic acidosis. 291.
▪ If so, bicarbonate losses from the diarrhea may be sufficient to lead to a metabolic acidosis.
▪ The most predictable compensation is the hyperventilation that occurs in simple metabolic acidosis.
▪ Treatment of combined metabolic acidosis and respiratory alkalosis is aimed at the underlying conditions.
▪ A positive base excess is associated with metabolic alkalosis, and a negative base excess is associated with metabolic acidosis. 301-304.
▪ Salicylate overdose in adults also results in both a metabolic acidosis and a primary respiratory alkalosis.
▪ In addition, full respiratory compensation for a metabolic acidosis may take up to 12 hours.
▪ Overzealous administration of hypertonic sodium bicarbonate solutions as treatment for severe metabolic acidosis of during cardiopulmonary resuscitation can have the same effect.
activity
▪ It is also thought that a proper coupling of electrical and metabolic activity is a prerequisite for the generation of pacemaker activity.
▪ Breath methane was measured and viable counts and metabolic activities of methanogenic bacteria and sulphate reducing bacteria determined in faeces.
▪ The same argument applies in principle to studies of metabolic activity.
▪ The more promising approach is to study the metabolic activity of the brain during behaviour.
▪ On day 10, 20, and 34 a faecal sample was collected for measurement of bacterial counts and metabolic activity.
alkalosis
▪ Vomiting, however, leads to a loss of gastric hydrochloric acid, and often causes a metabolic alkalosis.
▪ This indicates the presence of a metabolic alkalosis.
▪ Hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis occur together in states of mineralocorticoid excess, with diuretic therapy or abuse, and in vomiting.
▪ A positive base excess is associated with metabolic alkalosis, and a negative base excess is associated with metabolic acidosis. 301-304.
▪ This equation is applicable to patients with simple metabolic acidosis, and can not be extended to include those with metabolic alkalosis.
▪ If the patient has been vomiting and is volume-contracted on examination, then metabolic alkalosis may also be present.
▪ If the total CO2 is high, the patient may have either metabolic alkalosis or chronic respiratory acidosis, or both.
▪ The history, examination, and electrolyte levels suggest mild metabolic alkalosis.
disorder
▪ Scientists have strong evidence that Type I diabetes is a metabolic disorder triggered by an autoimmune reaction.
pathway
▪ Many basic metabolic pathways show striking similarities throughout the bacterial, plant and animal kingdoms.
process
▪ Buffer base reflects metabolic processes which influence acid-base balance.
▪ Stoichiometric procedures also help the biochemist to follow the metabolic processes that take place in organisms.
▪ The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them.
▪ As a bonus, water has particular electro-chemical qualities that make it an ideal reagent in many of life's metabolic processes.
▪ It is absorbed by our bodies and used in a wide range of metabolic processes.
▪ There thus seems to be quantitative differences in the metabolic processes concerned.
rate
▪ Your metabolic rate will fall; eating just average amounts of food will tend to make you fat.
▪ Aerobic exercise and reduced-calorie diets produce weight loss, but reduce the resting metabolic rate because they do not maintain muscle mass.
▪ Larger animals require more food than smaller animals, but smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate.
▪ Dieting may also depress the metabolic rate, he says, making it easier to gain weight the next time around.
▪ Varanus can also increase its metabolic rate, like mammals but often more effectively.
▪ And you can not safely ginger up your metabolic rate with drugs because of the risk from side-effects.
▪ He points out that an animal's life span is linked to its metabolic rate.
▪ Since reduced pressure also slows the metabolic rate, it too should slow and lengthen a creature's biological career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis occur together in states of mineralocorticoid excess, with diuretic therapy or abuse, and in vomiting.
▪ Salicylate overdose in adults also results in both a metabolic acidosis and a primary respiratory alkalosis.
▪ Since reduced pressure also slows the metabolic rate, it too should slow and lengthen a creature's biological career.
▪ So Dreadco's physiologists are setting up a variable-pressure metabolic laboratory to study the matter.
▪ The camel's metabolic response to heavy loads is no less dramatic.
▪ Toning and strengthening exercises will not only increase the metabolic rate but also improve the health of our bones.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metabolic

Metabolic \Met`a*bol"ic\, a. [Gr. ?. See Metabola.]

  1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.

  2. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metabolic

1845 in biological sense, from German metabolisch (1839), from Greek metabolikos "changeable," from metabole "a change, changing, a transition" (see metabolism). Used earlier in a general sense of "involving change" (1743). Related: Metabolically.

Wiktionary
metabolic

a. 1 Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change. 2 Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.

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WordNet
metabolic

  1. adj. of or relating to metabolism; "metabolic rate"

  2. undergoing metamorphosis [syn: metabolous] [ant: ametabolic]

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Usage examples of "metabolic".

Her heart sank even further when she realized that the prolonged anoxia had caused a severe metabolic acidosis as well.

For example, an anion gap on the electrolyte panel combined with metabolic acidosis on arterial blood gases would prompt an inquiry into ASA, methanol, or ethylene glycol as potential etiologic agents.

Her metabolic enhancer kicked in, flooding her body with extra adrenaline and inducing extra adenosine triphosphate.

This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.

The bullet she would fire contained frozen sodium azide, a metabolic inhibitor.

And a group of militant anti-GM campaigners are being pursued by Interpol, after their announcement that they have spliced a metabolic pathway for cyanogenic glycosides into maize seed corn destined for human-edible crops.

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.

Low leptin means little fat, and the body goes into conservation mode: cutting back its base metabolic rate, stimulating appetite, and inducing food-search behavior.

Inhibition of the enzyme allows cortisol to act as the major endogenous mineralocorticoid producing a marked elevation in mineralocorticoid activity, resulting in hypertension, hypokalemia, and metabolic alkalosis.

I favor the idea of a metabolic disturbance, an ionic imbalance in the neurotransmitter, trigammadimethylhitridixalot, resulting in the massive sustained, tetanic, bilateral muscular contractions and flexion that caused Dr.

Norau that were used in the Sind Wars, then moved on to upsizing reptiles and now seems to be working with arthropods, apparently having overcome the structural and metabolic issues with them.

No metabolic activity was detected in the Ceraunius forms, but electron microscopy reveals what appear to be cell walls, and RNA protein fragments within the forms.

They produce metabolic error that results in an accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in the tissues of the body.

Colibri is a moderately complex cocktail, and the metabolic systems of sublimated quasi-life are straight off the drawing-board, so I doubt if they were ever formally introduced in the lab.

In the deep seas, such bathypelagic monsters as anglerfish were slow moving, with a metabolic rate as low as one percent of fish living near the surface.