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Catabolism   Listen
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catabolism  n.  (Formerly spelled katabolism)  The breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.
Synonyms: katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism.






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"Catabolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... biotaxy^, chromosome, dysmeromorph^; ecology, oecology; erythroblast [Physio.], gametangium^, gamete, germinal matter, invagination [Biol.]; isogamy^, oogamy^; karyaster^; macrogamete^, microgamete^; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm^, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary^, spermatozoon, trophoplasm^, vacuole, vertebration^, zoogloea^, zygote. Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... being used. It is easily understood that by this we generate new life in the patient, so to speak, through the albumen, since it contains a large quantity of tissue building material, which in turn prevents catabolism or destruction of the organism, this as contrasted with the methods of the old regime which dooms the patient to certain death by opiates,—a course frequently resorted ...
— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann



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