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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



... substance excreted by certain metabolic insects soon after their emergence from the ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... is often the only cause of complaint. In some cases the symptoms are due to the pressure of the enlarged thyreoid on surrounding structures. In others toxic effects, in the form of cardiac, nervous, muscular, and general metabolic disturbances, predominate, and are due to absorption of excessive or abnormal thyreoid secretion. This thyreoid toxaemia varies in degree; in the milder cases it merely amounts to a nervousness or excitability that may unfit the patient for occupation; it reaches its maximum in the condition of ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... if to challenge the poet's flaunt at romance and to punish him for his recreancy to the undying spirit of youth and beauty, this vision had dawned upon him with a thrilling and accusive power. And so metabolic was the power that in an instant the atoms of Ravenel's entire world were redistributed. The laden drays that passed the house in which she lived rumbled a deep double-bass to the tune of love. The newsboys' shouts were the notes of singing birds; that garden ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry


Words linked to "Metabolic" :   basal metabolic rate, metabolic alkalosis, ametabolic, metabolic process, metabolic acidosis, metabolic disorder, destructive-metabolic, zoology, metabolous, constructive-metabolic, metabolism, zoological science, metabolic rate


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