DISASSIMILATION
\dˌɪsɐsˌɪmɪlˈe͡ɪʃən], \dˌɪsɐsˌɪmɪlˈeɪʃən], \d_ˌɪ_s_ɐ_s_ˌɪ_m_ɪ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DISASSIMILATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, - a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.
By Oddity Software
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The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, - a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism.
By Noah Webster.
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The reverse of assimilation; the process by which a substance is cast out and converted into waste matter.
By Alexander Duane
By Sir Augustus Henry