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Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.
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Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.
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The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
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(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
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One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.
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The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
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