metabolism
See also: Metabolism
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ism, from μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “I change, I alter”) + -η (-ē, “action noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɪˈtab.əl.ɪz.əm/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /məˈtæ.bəlˌɪz.əm/
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
- (figurative, 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, […]
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Derived terms
- ametabolism
- bradymetabolism
- chronometabolism
- cometabolism
- dysmetabolism
- endometabolism
- exometabolism
- glycometabolism
- hemimetabolism
- heterometabolism
- holometabolism
- hypermetabolism
- hypometabolism
- immunometabolism
- lipometabolism
- macrometabolism
- neurometabolism
- paurometabolism
- photometabolism
- protometabolism
- radiometabolism
- saccharometabolism
- sialometabolism
- thermometabolism
Translations
complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells
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Romanian
Etymology
From French métabolisme.
Declension
declension of metabolism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) metabolism | metabolismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) metabolism | metabolismului |
| vocative | metabolismule | |
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