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Metabolic   Listen
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Metabolic  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
2.
(Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.





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"Metabolic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Similarly, no plant or animal is capable of using every bit of energy released from their food, and consequently radiate heat. When working hard, living things give off more heat; when resting, less. The ebb and flow of heat production matches their oxygen consumption, and matches their physical and metabolic activities, and growth rates. Even single-celled animals like bacteria and fungi breathe oxygen ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... functions, and the drug needed may, for example, be digitalis. Far better than pressure-reducing drugs like nitrite of amyl, urgently indicated in some instances and for some purposes, is the regulation of life and the restoration to their normality of the metabolic processes, the elimination of the worry which is usually the exciting agent that brings about the over plus pressure, which may have as one of its expressions an acute rise of intra-ocular tension. I believe that in the management of a case of ...
— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various


Words linked to "Metabolic" :   zoological science, metabolic rate, constructive-metabolic, metabolic alkalosis, zoology, metabolous, basal metabolic rate


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