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Metabolism   /mətˈæbəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Metabolism

noun
1.
The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals.  Synonym: metamorphosis.
2.
The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life.  Synonym: metabolic process.



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"Metabolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... smiled. "It would mean," he explained, "a great quantity of the amino-acids, non-coagulable, nitrogenous compounds in the blood. You know the indols, the phenols, and the amins are produced both by putrefactive bacteria and by the process of metabolism, the burning up of the tissues in the process of utilizing the energy that means life. But under normal circumstances, the amins are not present in the blood in any such quantities as I have discovered by this ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... that many of the constituents found in plants are the result of destructive metabolism, and are of no further use in the plant's economy. This subject is by no means settled, and even should we be forced to accept that ground, it is a significant fact that certain cells, tissues, or organs peculiar to a plant secrete ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various
... incident of Empedocles and Pantheia, but nowadays the dead in mind and the deformed in body may be restored by the touch of the magic wand of science. The study of the interaction of these internal secretions, their influence upon development, upon mental process and upon disorders of metabolism is likely to prove in the future of a benefit scarcely less remarkable than that which we have ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler


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