METABOLISM
\mətˈabəlˌɪzəm], \mətˈabəlˌɪzəm], \m_ə_t_ˈa_b_ə_l_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of METABOLISM
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated.
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The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated.
By Noah Webster.
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The sum of chemical changes that occur within the tissues of an organism consisting of anabolism (BIOSYNTHESIS) and catabolism; the buildup and breakdown of molecules for utilization by the body.
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Tissue-change, the sum of the chemical changes whereby the function of nutrition is effected; it consists of anabolism, or the constructive or assimilative changes, and catabolism, or the destructive or retrograde changes.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The process by which, on the one hand, food is built up into living material, and, on the other, living matter is broken up and decomposed.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of Schwann, the series of chemical changes occurring in nutritive material taken into an organism by which it is converted into an integral part of the living substance, also the changes taking place in living substance by which energy is set free. In modern physiology the term is used to include the functional chemical changes occurring in the living cell. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.