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UK
/mˌɛtəbˈɒlɪk/
]
[ US /ˌmɛtəˈbɑɫɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌmɛtəˈbɑɫɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to metabolism
metabolic rate - undergoing metamorphosis
How To Use metabolic In A Sentence
- This is a metabolic disorder whereby excess uric acid in the blood gets deposited in joints.
- They are important for the majority of metabolic processes and for the building of body structure. The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
- There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
- Your metabolic rate is the speed at which your body transforms food into energy.
- In most cases of gout decreased urinary excretion of urate is the most common metabolic abnormality.
- Although metabolic rate may decline during this period, protein catabolism probably remained rather constant.
- To form the wound periderm certain metabolic processes are necessary These processes use energy which is gained by expiring starch stored in the tuber. 4 Yams
- Correction of the upward trend early in the history can stop the advent of Diabetes, with all the visual and metabolic problems, even including amputation of limbs.
- In all experiments the algae were treated with benzoquinone, to inhibit metabolic activity in the chloroplast and to maintain an oxidized plastoquinone pool.
- Stem cell technology may produce cures for Alzheimer's disease; vascular growth factors may enable the body to produce its own cardiac bypasses; and the elimination of metabolic derangements may cure phenylketonuria and diabetes.