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metabolic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mɛtəˈbɒlɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταβολικός (metabolikós), from μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ικός (-ikós), thus by surface analysis, metabola + -ic. Compare metabolism.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to metabolism.
    • metabolic activity
    • metabolic force
    • To date, no independent, well-controlled studies support claims of DAT’s effectiveness and the claim that dolphin echolocation produces beneficial cellular metabolic changes in individuals with ASD. 2015, Raymond G. Romanczyk, Laura B. Turner, Melina Sevlever, Jennifer M. Gillis, “14. The Status of Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Weak Relationship of Science to Interventions”, in Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr, editors, Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology, second edition, New York: The Guilford Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 452:
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis.
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete, rare) Pertaining to or involving change.

Deriveds

glucometabolic · metaboreceptor · metabolic pathway · cardiometabolic · cometabolic · high anion gap metabolic acidosis · polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome · ametabolic · metametabolic · heterometabolic · isometabolic · hemimetabolic · nonmetabolic · proteometabolic · hypometabolic · osteometabolic · radiometabolic · metabolics · antimetabolic · physiometabolic · submetabolic · metabolical · vasculometabolic · lipometabolic · protometabolic · dysmetabolic · genometabolic · plurimetabolic · tachymetabolic · hypermetabolic · neurometabolic · phylometabolic · glycometabolic · mechanometabolic · immunometabolic · metabolic syndrome · photometabolic · dismetabolic · chronometabolic · bradymetabolic · oncometabolic · metabolically · metabolic rate · saccharometabolic · endocrinometabolic · macrometabolic · exometabolic · holometabolic · reprometabolic · endometabolic · psychometabolic · cerebrometabolic · normometabolic · thermometabolic · basal metabolic rate

Relateds

metabolism · metabolize

Translations (18)

pl metaboliczny (of or pertaining to metabolism) · uk метаболі́чний (of or pertaining to metabolism) · it metabolico (of or pertaining to metabolism) · lv metabolisks (of or pertaining to metabolism) · pt metabólico (of or pertaining to metabolism) · ru метаболи́ческий (of or pertaining to metabolism) · ast metabólicu (of or pertaining to metabolism) · fr métabolique (of or pertaining to metabolism) · id metabolik (of or pertaining to metabolism) · id metabolis (of or pertaining to metabolism) · ar اِسْتِقْلَابِيّ (of or pertaining to metabolism) · ar أَيْضِيّ (of or pertaining to metabolism) · fi metabolinen (of or pertaining to metabolism) · be метабалі́чны (of or pertaining to metabolism) · eo metabola (of or pertaining to metabolism) · es metabólico (of or pertaining to metabolism) · ca metabòlic (of or pertaining to metabolism) · nl metabool (of or pertaining to metabolism)

metabolic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mɛtəˈbɒlɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταβολικός (metabolikós), from μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ικός (-ikós), thus by surface analysis, metabola + -ic. Compare metabolism.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A nutritional supplement.

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