metabolism
IPA: mʌtˈæbʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- (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
- Comparative studies of the metabolism of Texas Bays.
- A further complication is the metabolism of musk xylene.
- B12 is an important vitamin for the support of the metabolism.
- Glucose is critical in the production of proteins and in lipid metabolism.
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