noun
definition
The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
definition
(by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
Examples of metabolism in a Sentence
They lessen the general metabolism and lower febrile temperature.
Yes, my metabolism is a lot faster than a human, so my temperature runs about a hundred and two degrees.
The effect of common salt on the metabolism of plants is not understood.
It has some power of affecting the general metabolism, but no wholly satisfactory explanation is forthcoming.
A fast metabolism was part of the reason.
In diabetes mellitus, in which there is marked derangement in metabolism, extreme fatty changes are occasionally found in the organs, and the blood may be loaded with fat globules.
The enhanced metabolism creates a current of draught on the supplies of available food-stuffs around.
It therefore increases all the secretions, especially those of the skin and kidneys, while it also stimulates the general metabolism of the body and the excretion of nitrogenous products.
Haematoidin in normal metabolism is largely excreted by the liver in the form of bilirubin.
The health of the body depends upon the proper kind and supply of food, upon its proper digestion and absorption, on the proper metabolism or tissue-change in the body, and the proper excretion of waste.
Eating breakfast gets your metabolism going for the whole day.
Like alcohol and prussic acid, quinine interferes with oxidation, so that oxyhaemoglobin is relatively unable to give up its oxygen to the tissues, the metabolism of which is therefore greatly modified.
As the cell fails and shrinks, so does it become more and more unable to make good the waste due to metabolism.
One of the best foods for speeding up metabolism are eggs.
Like all alkalis if given in quantities they increase metabolism.
Envelope membranes from spinach chloroplasts are a site of metabolism of fatty acid hydroperoxides.
Rarely, inactivation of vitamin B12 may occur which can then interfere with folate metabolism which can result in bone marrow changes.
Main current research is on the transcriptional control of lipid metabolism in farmed fish species, funded by the EU.
No reports of adverse effects on lipids or carbohydrate metabolism.
Nicotine is also subject to a significant first-pass metabolism.
The results show that no single enzyme controls glucose metabolism.
Other inherited disorders of lipoprotein metabolism are rarely expressed in childhood.
As temperature decreases drug metabolism and excretion also decreases thereby prolonging recovery.
Two other disease complexes of adult ruminants related to energy metabolism have been identified.
Metabolism can be influenced by age, sex, and certain foods that are eaten.
Repeat this sequence three or four times for a calorie burning workout that revs your heart rate and metabolism while giving your legs a great workout.
When you add coconut oil into your diet you burn off more calories because your metabolism increases.
This metabolism is a key component of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle.
Drugs that induce cytochrome P450 activity may reduce the availability of some protease inhibitors by increasing first pass metabolism.
There are also two new isotope ratio mass spectrometers for in vivo studies of energy and protein metabolism in patients.
Hence, strong inhibitors of this enzyme may inhibit the metabolism of clarithromycin, resulting in increased plasma concentrations of clarithromycin.
The pills also purport to stimulate the metabolism, breaking down fat.
Iodine is required by the thyroid glands which regulates body metabolism.
Such blockages will disrupt the balance of all circadian mediated metabolism throughout the body.
I've read on an on-line debate on smoking that chrome and iodine accelerate the metabolism.
The tissues have to undergo anaerobic metabolism, producing lactate, to meet the energy needs of essential processes within the tissue.
Minimal oxidative metabolism (a phase I reaction) has been observed in all species evaluated.
However use of these agents are not recommended below one year of age due to the possibility of immature renal function and hepatic metabolism.
The process by which muscles obtain energy from glucose in the presence of oxygen is called aerobic metabolism.
Methotrexate which interferes with purine metabolism was introduced almost 50 years ago.
Members agreed that metabolism of 1,3-DCP was likely to produce the reactive epoxide metabolite that could damage DNA.
This hydrogen is the waste end product of the metabolism of other, heterotrophic microorganisms.
The researchers concluded that being born preterm may have a long-term effect on cholesterol metabolism in children 8 to 12 years later.
The very large sauropods could not eat enough to have sustained endothermic metabolism, given likely estimates of bite size and nutrient values.
This entails investigating mitochondrial glutathione and protein thiols and the enzyme systems involve in their metabolism.
They probably express a variation which may have occurred in a far-back ancestor, or in one more recent, and render the individual vulnerable to the attacks of parasitic fungi, or, it may be, become manifest as errors of metabolism.
The part played by fats and closely allied compounds in normal and abnormal metabolism need not here be discussed, as the subject is too complex and the views on it are conflicting.
This increased osmotic pressure is again due to accumulation of crystalloids in the tissues, either products of metabolism due to deficient oxidation from alteration in the blood or other cause, or, it may be, as in some cases of nephritis, owing to a.
Amongst these, the most important is fever with increased protein metabolism, attended with disturbances of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Nervous symptoms, somnolence, coma, spasms, convulsions and paralysis are of common occurrence.
Thus, axon protection is likely to be mediated by altered ubiquitination or pyridine nucleotide metabolism.