metabolic

English

Etymology

See metabolism.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

Adjective

metabolic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
2. Of or pertaining to metabolism

   metabolic activity

   metabolic force

Derived terms

• ametabolic
• antimetabolic
• basal metabolic rate
• bradymetabolic
• cardiometabolic
• chronometabolic
• cometabolic
• dismetabolic
• dysmetabolic
• endometabolic
• exometabolic
• genometabolic
• glucometabolic
• glycometabolic
• hemimetabolic
• heterometabolic
• high anion gap metabolic acidosis
• holometabolic
• hypermetabolic
• hypometabolic
• immunometabolic
• lipometabolic
• macrometabolic
• mechanometabolic
• metabolical
• metabolically
• metabolic pathway
• metabolic-rate
• metabolic rate
• metabolics
• metabolic syndrome
• neurometabolic
• nonmetabolic
• osteometabolic
• photometabolic
• phylometabolic
• plurimetabolic
• protometabolic
• radiometabolic
• saccharometabolic
• thermometabolic

 

Related terms

• metabolize
• metabolism

Translations

of or pertaining to metamorphosis

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of or pertaining to metabolism

• Catalan: metabòlic
• Finnish: metabolinen (fi)
• French: métabolique (fr)
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• Italian: metabolico (it)
• Portuguese: metabólico (pt)
• Spanish: metabólico (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: metabolický
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• (deprecated template usage) Icelandic: efnaskipta-

Noun

metabolic (plural metabolics)

1. (informal) A nutritional supplement

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Interlingua

Adjective

metabolic (not comparable)

1. metabolic

Related terms

• metabolismo