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Definition of Anabolism

1. Noun. The synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy.

Definition of Anabolism

1. n. The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.

Definition of Anabolism

1. Noun. The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism. ¹

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Definition of Anabolism

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Anabolism

1. To generate or synthesise. Compare: catabolism. (18 Nov 2007)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anabolism

Literary usage of Anabolism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"... CHAPTER II MECHANISM OF METABOLISM* GENERAL THEORY OF METABOLISM anabolism, KATABOLISM, METABOLISM.—It has been stated that microorganisms need food for ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"To repeat, the greater the katabolism the greater must be the anabolism, and in animals the great katabolism implies at the same time a great anabolism and ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"anabolism. Frequent reference has been made to ... (v) The anabolism of protein foodstuff or blood proteins into living protoplasm. (vi) Synthesis of phenol ..."

4. A Text Book of General Bacteriology by Eugene Franklin McCampbell, William Dodge Frost (1910)
"The building up, constructive, or synthetic process is given a special name, anabolism. The tearing down, destructive, or analytic process is spoken of as ..."

5. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"If the food supply ceases, anabolism ceases with it, but it has been ... THEORY OF anabolism. INTERACTION OF anabolism AND INTRA-CELLULAR FERMENTATION. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1904)
"To repeat, the greater the katabolism the greater must be the anabolism, and in animals the great katabolism implies at the same time a great anabolism and ..."

7. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"We have been occupied mainly so far in discussing the anabolism of the protoplasts. The substances we have traced to the cells in which growth and repair ..."

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