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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Metabolism \Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.) 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}). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anabolism \A*nab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.) The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: anabolism n : synthesis of more complex substances from simpler ones [syn: {constructive metabolism}] [ant: {catabolism}]
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