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Katabolism   Listen
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Katabolism  n.  (Physiol.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; same as catabolism (now the more common spelling); opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Katabolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be said that the male was more "katabolic," the female more "anabolic." These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other. It seems safer to say merely that a lower metabolism in the female is accompanied by ...
— Taboo and Genetics • Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

... proper light. The hyper-critical spirit is fatal to growth under any condition. Whenever a teacher has come to the conclusion that he or she has nothing to learn from studying the work of others, anabolism has ceased and katabolism has set in. The self-sufficiency of our craft is one of its weakest characteristics. It is the factor that more than any other discounts it in the minds of laymen. Fortunately it is less frequently a professional characteristic than in former years, but it still persists in some quarters. I recently ...
— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley



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