metabolism

See also: Metabolism

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French métabolisme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”), from μετά (metá, “meta-”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈtæbəlɪzəm/

Noun

metabolism (countable and uncountable, plural metabolisms)

1. (physiology) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.

Derived terms

• ametabolism
• bradymetabolism
• chronometabolism
• cometabolism
• dysmetabolism
• endometabolism
• exometabolism
• glycometabolism
• hemimetabolism
• heterometabolism
• holometabolism
• hypermetabolism
• hypometabolism
• immunometabolism
• lipometabolism
• macrometabolism
• neurometabolism
• paurometabolism
• photometabolism
• protometabolism
• radiometabolism
• saccharometabolism
• sialometabolism
• thermometabolism

 

Translations

complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells

• Arabic: أَيْض m (ʔayḍ), تَمْثِيل غِذَائِيّ m (tamṯīl ḡiḏāʔiyy), اِسْتِقْلَاب m (istiqlāb)
• Armenian: նյութափոխանակություն (hy) (nyutʻapʻoxanakutʻyun)
• Asturian: metabolismu m
• Belarusian: абмен рэчываў (abmjen rečyvaŭ)
• Catalan: metabolisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代謝／代谢 (zh) (dàixiè), 代谢 (zh) (dàixiè), 新陳代謝／新陈代谢 (zh) (xīnchén dàixiè), 新陈代谢 (zh) (xīnchén dàixiè)

  Min Nan: 代謝／代谢 (zh-min-nan) (tāi-siā)

• Czech: metabolismus m, metabolizmus m
• Danish: stofskifte (da)
• Dutch: stofwisseling (nl) m, metabolisme (nl) n
• Estonian: ainevahetus
• Faroese: evnaskifti n, evnabroyting f
• Finnish: aineenvaihdunta (fi), metabolismi (fi)
• French: métabolisme (fr) m
• Galician: metabolismo m
• Georgian: ნივთიერებათა ცვლა (nivtierebata cvla), მეტაბოლიზმი (meṭabolizmi)
• German: Stoffwechsel (de) m, Metabolismus (de) m

  Central Franconian: Schtoffwääßel

• German Low German: Stoffwessel
• Greek: μεταβολισμός (el) m (metavolismós)
• Gujarati: ચયાપચય (cayāpacay)
• Hawaiian: pūnao
• Hindi: चयापचय (cayāpacay)
• Hungarian: anyagcsere (hu)
• Icelandic: efnaskipti n
• Ido: metabolio (io)
• Italian: metabolismo (it) m, ricambio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 代謝 (ja) (たいしゃ, taisha), 新陳代謝 (ja) (しんちんたいしゃ, shinchin taisha), 物質代謝 (ぶっしつたいしゃ, busshitsu taisha)
• Kannada: ಚಯಾಪಚಯ (kn) (cayāpacaya)
• Korean: 신진대사 (ko) (sinjin daesa) (新陳代謝 (ko)), 물질대사 (ko) (muljil daesa) (物質代謝 (ko))
• Latvian: vielmaiņa
• Limburgish: stofwisseling
• Luxembourgish: stoffwiessel
• Malayalam: ഉപാപചയം (upāpacayaṁ)
• Marathi: चयापचय (cayāpacay)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stoffskifte (no) n

  Nynorsk: stoffskifte n

• Polish: metabolizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: metabolismo (pt) m
• Quechua: imayay yamkiy
• Romanian: metabolism (ro) n
• Russian: метаболи́зм (ru) m (metabolízm), обме́н веще́ств (ru) m (obmén veščéstv)
• Serbo-Croatian: metabolìzam (sh) m
• Slovene: presnova, presnavljanje
• Spanish: metabolismo (es) m
• Swedish: metabolism (sv) c, ämnesomsättning
• Tagalog: kapbisa
• Tamil: வளர்சிதைமாற்றம் (vaḷarcitaimāṟṟam)
• Tatar: алышынуы (alışınuwı)
• Telugu: జీవక్రియ (jīvakriya)
• Turkish: metabolizma (tr), özgeriş, özgerinç (?)
• Ukrainian: обмін речовин (obmin rečovyn)
• Vietnamese: trao đổi chất, biến dưỡng