Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or resulting from metabolism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology: Undergoing complete metamorphosis, as an insect; of or pertaining to the Metabola. Also metabolous.
  • Changeable in form; assuming different characters; polymorphic: applied by Cohn to the Infusoria.
  • In biology, exhibiting or affected by metabolism: as, metabolic processes; metabolic changes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
  • adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to metabolism
  • adjective undergoing metamorphosis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek metabolikos, changeable, from metabolē, change; see metabolism.]

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See metabolism.

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Examples

  • Building up muscle mass is going to cause you to burn more calories and increase what we call your metabolic rate.

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  • But the bad news is there's more obesity, more, what we call metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes in the population in our young people.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2006 2006

  • Specific interests in metabolic disorders; acute lymphoblastic leukemia and physiologic management in the ICU as a moderator of outcome from traumatic brain injury.

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  • The nodes of these networks are usually proteins (specifically enzymes in metabolic networks), whereas the links (or edges) are their interactions with other molecules.

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  • In addition to our diagnostic and treatment services, we provide training in metabolic diseases and support active research programs that have made important contributions to the field.

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  • The nodes of these networks are usually proteins (specifically enzymes in metabolic networks), whereas the links (or edges) are their interactions with other molecules.

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  • In people, similar changes in body fat and metabolic activity are known as metabolic syndrome.

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  • Is the cytoplasmic loop of XcpS involved in metabolic stabilization?

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  • Their story prompted the State Assembly, Senate and Governor to pass through and sign the proposed expanded newborn screening bill into law and today approximately three hundred children a year are identified with certain metabolic disorders like GA1 that are easily treatble with dietary changes.

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