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metabolism
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (metabol?, “change”) +? -ism, from ????????? (metabáll?, “I change, I alter”) +? -? (-?, “action noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??tab.?l.?z.?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /m??tæ.b?l??z.?m/
Noun
metabolism (countable and uncountable, plural metabolisms)
- (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Hyponyms: anabolism, catabolism
- (figuratively, by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
- 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (page 230)
- The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
- 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (page 230)
Derived terms
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French métabolisme
Noun
metabolism n (uncountable)
- metabolism
Declension
metabolism From the web:
- what metabolism do i have
- what metabolism mean
- what metabolism type do i have
- what metabolism will a ribosome perform
- what metabolism is and what it does for your body
- what metabolism is good
- what metabolism do
- what metabolism includes in the body
alkaptonuria
English
Alternative forms
- alcaptonuria
Etymology
From alkapton +? -uria.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /æl?kæpt??n?????/
Noun
alkaptonuria (uncountable)
- (medicine) A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 39:
- In his work at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Great Ormond Street in London, Garrod had come across a number of patients with a rare and not very serious disease, known as alkaptonuria.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 39:
Related terms
- alkaptonuric
Translations
alkaptonuria From the web:
- alkaptonuria what chromosome
- what causes alkaptonuria
- what is alkaptonuria in biochemistry
- what is alkaptonuria disease
- what does alkaptonuria
- what can alkaptonuria cause
- what is alkaptonuria albinism
- what does alkaptonuria do
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