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Definition of Catabolism
1. Noun. Breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy.
Group relationships: Metabolic Process, Metabolism
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Antonyms: Anabolism
Derivative terms: Catabolic, Catabolic, Catabolize, Katabolic, Katabolic
Definition of Catabolism
1. Noun. (biochemistry) destructive metabolism, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catabolism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Catabolism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Catabolism
Literary usage of Catabolism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of General Bacteriology by Eugene Franklin McCampbell, William Dodge Frost (1910)
"catabolism. — By catabolism is meant all the chemical processes going on in the cell
... Anabolism and catabolism are constantly going on in the same cell. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... catabolism—CATACLYSM cane-brakes. " To fight like a wild cat " is proverbial
.... Frances Simpson, The Book of the Cat (London, 1903). (RL.*) catabolism ..."
3. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"There are not wanting those who maintain, however, that the enzyme is not the
primary cause of the catabolism in the living tissue. ..."
4. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Normal Purin Metabolism catabolism of Nucleoproteins.— In the normal metabolism
of man uric acid and related substances are derived in the main, ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Normal Purin Metabolism catabolism of Nucleoproteins.—In the normal metabolism
of man uric acid and related substances are derived in the main, ..."
6. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"In the fast of Succi, Luciani found that a ;en excretion of 16.23 grams decreased
on the first day of fasting Fig. 178<i-—catabolism During ..."
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