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metabolic meaning

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    Definition of metabolic in English Dictionary

  • AdjectivePREméta-
    1. Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
      1. Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Discrepancies in the metabolic response between the two strains may be attributed in part to the missense mutation (M35T) in exon 1 and a multiexon deletion of Nnt in the C57BL/6J mice.
          • Here, we describe the tandemer approach for efficiently computing metabolite tandem mass-isotopomer distributions in a metabolic network, given an estimation of metabolic fluxes.
          • This connection between inflammasomal activation and metabolic impairment seems to represent a novel mechanism as a way of inducing cell death, either via apoptosis or pyroptosis (see above).
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Metabolic acidosis associated with increased anion gap may be caused by underdialysis and anorexia.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Uncomparable adjectives
        Related Links:
        1. en metabolical
        2. en metabolically
        3. en metabolic-rate
        4. en metabolic rate
        5. en metabolic rates
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of metabolic for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "metabolic" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective.
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