anabolism

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek + + -ism. Formed in analogy with metabolism.

Noun

anabolism (usually uncountable, plural anabolisms)

1. The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.
   • 2008, Carlon M. Colker, Extreme Muscle Enhancement, 3rd edition, page 13-14.

     We used to think bodybuilding was all about anabolism by way of turning on testosterone and growth hormone secretion.

Related terms

• anabolic
• anabolize

Translations

the constructive metabolism of the body

• Albanian: anabolizmi
• Catalan: anabolisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同化作用 (zh) (tónghuà zuòyòng)

• Czech: anabolismus (cs) m
• Danish: anabolisme
• Dutch: anabolisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: anabolo
• Estonian: anabolism (et)
• Finnish: rakennusaineenvaihdunta, anabolia (fi)
• French: anabolisme (fr) m
• German: Anabolismus (de) m
• Greek: αναβολισμός (el) m (anavolismós)
• Hungarian: anabolizmus (hu), asszimiláció (hu)
• Irish: borrshó m, anabalacht f
• Italian: anabolismo (it)
• Japanese: 同化 (ja) (どうか, dōka), 同化作用 (どうかさよう, dōka sayō)
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• Korean: 합성대사 (hapseong daesa)
• Norwegian: anabolisme
• Occitan: anabolisme
• Persian: فراگشت (fa)
• Polish: anabolizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anabolismo (pt)
• Russian: анаболи́зм (ru) m (anabolízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анаболизам m

  Roman: anabolizam (sh) m

• Slovak: anabolizmus m
• Slovene: anabolizem m
• Spanish: anabolismo m
• Sundanese: anabolisme
• Swedish: anabolism (sv)
• Tagalog: kapyari
• Thai: กระบวนการสร้าง (gràbuan gaan sâang)

References

• “anabolism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.