metabolic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταβολικός (metabolikós), from μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós), thus by surface analysis, metabola +‎ -ic. Compare metabolism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɛtəˈbɒlɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

Adjective

metabolic (not comparable)

1. (biology, medicine) Of or pertaining to metabolism.

   metabolic activity

   metabolic force

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     To date, no independent, well-controlled studies support claims of DAT’s effectiveness and the claim that dolphin echolocation produces beneficial cellular metabolic changes in individuals with ASD.

2. (zoology, obsolete) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis.
3. (obsolete, rare) Pertaining to or involving change.

Derived terms

• ametabolic
• antimetabolic
• basal metabolic rate
• bradymetabolic
• cardiometabolic
• cerebrometabolic
• chronometabolic
• cometabolic
• dismetabolic
• dysmetabolic
• endocrinometabolic
• endometabolic
• exometabolic
• genometabolic
• glucometabolic
• glycometabolic
• hemimetabolic
• heterometabolic
• high anion gap metabolic acidosis
• holometabolic
• hypermetabolic
• hypometabolic
• immunometabolic
• isometabolic
• lipometabolic
• macrometabolic
• mechanometabolic
• metabolical
• metabolically
• metabolic pathway
• metabolic rate
• metabolics
• metabolic syndrome
• metaboreceptor
• metametabolic
• neurometabolic
• nonmetabolic
• normometabolic
• oncometabolic
• osteometabolic
• photometabolic
• phylometabolic
• physiometabolic
• plurimetabolic
• proteometabolic
• protometabolic
• psychometabolic
• radiometabolic
• reprometabolic
• saccharometabolic
• submetabolic
• tachymetabolic
• thermometabolic
• vasculometabolic

Related terms

• metabolize
• metabolism

Translations

of or pertaining to metabolism

• Arabic: اِسْتِقْلَابِيّ (ar) (istiqlābiyy), أَيْضِيّ (ʔayḍiyy)
• Asturian: metabólicu
• Belarusian: метабалі́чны (mjetabalíčny)
• Catalan: metabòlic (ca)
• Dutch: metabool (nl)
• Esperanto: metabola
• Finnish: metabolinen (fi)
• French: métabolique (fr)
• Indonesian: metabolis (id), metabolik (id)
• Italian: metabolico (it)
• Latvian: metabolisks
• Polish: metaboliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: metabólico (pt)
• Russian: метаболи́ческий (ru) (metabolíčeskij)
• Spanish: metabólico (es)
• Ukrainian: метаболі́чний (metabolíčnyj)

of or pertaining to metamorphosis

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• Czech: metabolický
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} efnaskipta-

Noun

metabolic (plural metabolics)

1. (informal) A nutritional supplement.

Interlingua

Adjective

metabolic (not comparable)

1. metabolic

Related terms

• metabolismo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métabolique.

Adjective

metabolic m or n (feminine singular metabolică, masculine plural metabolici, feminine/neuter plural metabolice)

1. metabolic

Declension

Declension of metabolic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	metabolic		metabolică	metabolici	metabolice
	definite	metabolicul		metabolica	metabolicii	metabolicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	metabolic		metabolice	metabolici	metabolice
	definite	metabolicului		metabolicei	metabolicilor	metabolicelor