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Definition of Catabolize
1. Verb. Subject to catabolism.
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Generic synonyms: Oxidate, Oxidise, Oxidize
Derivative terms: Catabolism
Definition of Catabolize
1. Verb. (intransitive) to undergo catabolism ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to cause a substance to undergo catabolism ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) to produce a substance using catabolism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catabolize
1. [v -LIZED, -LIZING, -LIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catabolize
Literary usage of Catabolize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"However, adenosylhomocysteine might be present in excess as a consequence of
either augmented transmethylation or the failure to catabolize adenosine. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In that context, it seems highly reasonable to postulate that normal children
can catabolize as much as 200 milligrams per day of CSB and HS. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Even the normal body cannot catabolize more than a certain amount of homogentisic
acid. Thus, if 50 g. 1-tyrosin be swallowed by a healthy person, ..."
4. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"... locus coeruleus ganism also activates detoxification (LC) and other
catecholaminergic cell functions to neutralize and catabolize groups of the medulla ..."
5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"The essential reason why small animals catabolize relatively more substance than
large ones, when calculated per kilo body weight, is that the bodies of ..."
6. Oxidations and Reductions in the Animal Body by Henry Drysdale Dakin (1922)
"... but for some not yet understood reason, they fail to fully catabolize the
cystine arising in the course of ordinary endogenous metabolism.3 Serine. ..."
7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1921)
"Thus, a well-nourished normal man weighing 50 kg., who during a fast produces
1500 calories per day may actually catabolize in the neighborhood of 75 gm. ..."
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