metabolism
IPA: mʌtˈæbʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- (physiology, by extension) The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
- (figurative, by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
- A post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
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Examples of "metabolism" in Sentences
- Their metabolism is way down so they go slow and eat small things.
- Trout seem to be really hungry because their metabolism is high and little food.
- By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.
- When you then get down to a lower weight, the damage to metabolism is still there, invisible, affecting all your efforts to control your weight.
- In recent photos (like this one) she looks painfully underweight, but I'm hoping that's just how her metabolism is rather than any digestive issues or eating disorder.
- During the 1930s, Kuhn's research on vitamins as growth factors and enzymatic reactions in metabolism brought him work as an advisor and collaborator at I.G. Farben, the large German chemical company.
- "There is a whole host of other physiological responses" to exercise, such as heart rate, cholesterol levels, blood pressure and insulin metabolism, that are related to genes other than those implicated in the aerobic response, says co-author Tuomo Rankinen, a scientist in the human genomics laboratory at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
- Clearance of drugs with a low rate of hepatic extraction is especially dependent on the rate of liver metabolism. 7 Drugs which have low intrinsic clearance rates will have a corresponding decrease in metabolism with decreased hepatic function. 7 Clearance of drugs with a high rate of hepatic extraction will be mostly dependent on the rate of hepatic blood flow. 7 This can be diminished, as mentioned earlier, making these drugs more bioavailable.
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