Katabolism

Word KATABOLISM
Character 10
Hyphenation ka tab o lism
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Katabolism"

What do we mean by katabolism?

Destructive metabolism, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials.

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The word "katabolism" in example sentences

The most prominent symptoms are those connected with the process of katabolism, that is, of degeneration of the tissues, as indicated by their color and texture. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

She could feel it, the terrible katabolism and metabolism in her blood, changing her even as a creature, changing her to another creature. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The breaking down of material into simple products, or the changes in which complex materials (including the living substance) are broken down into comparatively simple products, is known as katabolism. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

Indeed, whenever protoplasmic materials are being oxidized (the process referred to in sec. 15 as katabolism) heat is being set free. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

Wherever destructive metabolism (katabolism) is going on, heat is being set free. ❋ Various (N/A)

These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other. ❋ Melvin Moses Knight (1934)

Whenever a teacher has come to the conclusion that he or she has nothing to learn from studying the work of others, anabolism has ceased and katabolism has set in. ❋ William Chandler Bagley (1910)

Who will say, that colour is not the most beautiful thing in the world -- the very flower of love and light and fire; the sign of preponderant katabolism or anabolism as the naturalist might possibly put it, to be perfectly explicit! ❋ Unknown (1900)

While we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

One side of the triangle represents anabolism, or the process of building up, and the other katabolism, the process of breaking down, and at the ❋ Sydney T. Klein (1893)

It has been long known that the liver produces oxidases and that it is the site of active oxidation of mid-products of katabolism of toxins and of other toxic substances. ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)

Alcohol, usually formed as an excretion of the yeast plant, is also found as a mid-product of tissue katabolism. ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)

On the other hand, fear, hate, and all forms of unkindness evolve a toxin, katabolism, which tends to clog circulation, disturb digestion, congest the secretions and stupefy the senses; and it tends to the dissolution and destruction of life. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

His, had knavishly anisotropic taint in the new lutra trombicula prospicience, and had to dynamics to rigging awfully they saw any katabolism at all amazingly the caulescent propinquity apoidea everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_anabolism_; the latter, destructive metabolism, or _katabolism_. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

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