What is "metabolize"

Usage examples of "metabolize".

Produced from cholesterol by way of pregnenolone, DHEA is an androgen that is metabolized to form androstenedione, which begets testosterone which begets estradiol and then estrone, and finally, estriol.

With mouths that bloated and shriveled, ballooned to turgid proportions only to be swiftly metabolized, they mocked his futile efforts: moaning, whistling, enouncing in measured, whispered tones that echoed with the icy indifference in which they dwelled.

Each bottle arrives with a piece of paper stating that the urine contains no detectable amounts of amphetamines, barbiturates, methadone, opiates, metabolized cocaine, benzodiazepine or THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

But Britt knows that slow, deep breaths will bring in the oxygen needed to metabolize away the residue of adrenaline and free his body from the influence of this powerful, primitive hormone that was instinctively released by his brain in the face of the death out there on the track.

Because ethinyl estradiol is not metabolized in the liver the way natural estradiol is, it hangs around in the body far longer.

That would be metabolized when they awoke, giving them a burst of energy.

Her emerging darlings had consumed it, metabolizing even its armor to shape their shells.

He stood naked in the middle of his modestly furnished living room, breathing in a rhythm designed to metabolize the adrenalin, relax the muscles.

A tiny percentage of codeine gets metabolized into good old C17-morphine, affording an agonizing hint of what real relief from The Bird might feel like.

Morphine is also a metabolite of codeine, and when codeine is metabolized in the blood we get very low levels of morphine.

In time, the seas became full of these molecular collectives, forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, replicating … forming, metabolizing, mutating, replicating… Elaborate systems arose, molecular collectives exhibiting behavior, moving to where the replication building blocks were more abundant, avoiding molecular collectives that incorporated their neighbors.

Although singing crystal brought with it an inexhaustible ability to metabolize alcohol without noticeable affect, she feigned the symptoms of intoxication as she confided her fake history to the Jungian, whenever necessary embellishing her actual experiences at the Arts Complex.

Likewise, they cannot metabolize on their own, and they lack a cell membrane.

So he gets off at the El Monte exit and heads into the business district of Los Altos, a pretty typical mid-twentieth-century American downtown gradually being metabolized by franchises.

Halochondria metabolize molecular chlorine and bromine to produce chloride and bromide ions and energy-storing organophosphates.