metabolism
metabolism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- albumen
- anabolism
- anatomy
- animated
- antherozoid
- bacteriology
- biology
- bioplasm
- biotaxy
- botany
- chemistry
- chromosome
- cytoplasm
- gamete
- germinal
- history
- invagination
- living
- matter
- metaplasm
- microbiology
- morphology
- mycology
- natural
- naturalist
- nature
- oecology
- ontogeny
- organic
- organism
- organization
- ovary
- ovum
- oxidation
- phylogeny
- physiology
- polymorphism
- production
- protein
- protoplasm
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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