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Catabolic

adjective
(Formerly spelled katabolic)
1.
Relating to or characterized by catabolism.  Synonym: katabolic.
2.
Characterized by destructive metabolism.  Synonym: katabolic.






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"Catabolic" Quotes from Famous Books



... This repressive function is probably not worked from special nervous centers, nor can we speak with confidence of collisions with "sums of arrest" in a sense analogous to that of Herbart, or of stimuli that normally cause catabolic molecular processes in the cell, being mysteriously diverted to produce increased instability or anabolic lability in the sense of Wundt's Mechanik der Nerven. The concept now suggested by many facts is that inhibition ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall



Words linked to "Catabolic" :   energy-releasing, anabolic, catabolism, katabolic, destructive-metabolic



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