metabolism
See also: Metabolism
English
Etymology
From French métabolisme, from Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”), from μετά (metá, “meta-”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məˈtæbəlɪzəm/
Noun
metabolism (countable and uncountable, plural metabolisms)
- (physiology) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.
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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