Look up: metabolism

1. Metabolism
   The process by which digested foods (nutrients) are converted into energy to be used by the body for vital functions. Metabolism is measured in calories. Many things can affect your metabolism, such as the percentage of fat vs. lean muscle tissue (muscle will burn more calories than fat).
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2. Metabolism
   The transformation by which energy is made available for body uses.
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3. Metabolism
   The biochemical processes that sustain a living cell or organism.
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4. Metabolism
   The total sum of the chemical and physical changes constantly taking place in living matter. All biochemical reactions in a cell by which organisms utilise nutritive material to build living matter and structural components, or break down cellular material into simple substances to perform special functions.
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5. Metabolism
   The sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place within an organism and all energy transformations that occur within living cells.
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6. metabolism
   (Humans as organisms) the sum of all chemical processes taking place in our cells, and the rate at which these proceed
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7. metabolism
   [n] - the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
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8. Metabolism
   All the chemical reactions that happen in the body. Taken together, these reactions create the energy the body uses for all its work including, breathing, thinking & moving.
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9. Metabolism
   A mainly beneficial process occurring in the liver, kidneys, lungs and skin which converts a toxic substance to a non-toxic one or vice versa eg: the skin converts some constituents in tar into carcinogens.
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10. Metabolism
    is the sum total of the chemical processes occurring in the body. This includes all body functions brain, heart, breathing, circulation, digestion, growth, recovery from injury, availability of energy and the right chemicals for everything needing them, and elimination or removal of waste materials ...
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11. Metabolism
    All the chemical processes that take place in the body.
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12. metabolism
    the term for the way cells chemically change food so that it can be used to store or use energy and make the proteins, fats, and sugars needed by the body.
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13. Metabolism
    the reactions involved in the building up and decomposition of chemical substances in living organisms
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14. Metabolism
    The chemical changes in the plant's cells, to provide energy for vital processes.
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15. Metabolism
    All the chemical processes involved in maintaining life.
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16. metabolism
    metabolic; metabolic reaction. A sequence of biochemical reactions that converts fuel molecules into energy used to drive other biological processes. Also refers to the sequence of transformations foreign compounds undergo inside a living cell.
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17. Metabolism
    Sum of the physical and chemical changes that take place in living organisms. These changes include both synthesis (anabolism) and breakdown (catabolism) of body constituents. In a narrower sense, the physical and chemical changes that take place in a giv
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18. Metabolism
    Sum of the physical and chemical changes that take place in living organisms. These changes include both synthesis (anabolism) and breakdown (catabolism) of body constituents. In a narrower sense, the physical and chemical changes that take place in a given chemical substance within an organism. It includes the uptake and distribution within the bo…
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19. Metabolism
    The effect of the body on an administered compound which results in its transformation into other compounds prior to excretion.
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20. Metabolism
    The sum total of the chemical processes that take place in living organisms, resulting in growth, development, and all other forms of energy transformation
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21. Metabolism
    a general term for all of the chemical processes that occur in the body
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22. Metabolism
    Metabolism is the process the body uses to build and maintain itself. It involves breaking down food and nutrients to produce energy.
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23. Metabolism
    The use of foods by the body following digestion, absorption and circulation to the body cells. Foods are used both as an energy source and, after being broken down chemically during digestion, as basic materials for making complex chemical compounds required by the body. These processes are necessary for life
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24. Metabolism
    The sum total of changes in an organism in order to achieve a balance (homeostasis).
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25. Metabolism
    The term metabolism comprises the entire physical and chemical processes involved in the maintenance and reproduction of life in which nutrients are broken down to generate energy and to give simpler molecules (catabolism) which by themselves may be used to form more complex molecules (anabolism). ...
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