metabolic
adjective
met·a·bol·ic
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Definition of metabolic
: of, relating to, or based on metabolism
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Other Words from metabolic
metabolically
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Examples of metabolic in a Sentence
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Ultimately, the team found that larvae treated with rapid cold hardening bounced back from stress faster than their directly frozen counterparts; members of the group also exhibited significantly higher metabolic rates during recovery. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "How Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Survives the Freezing Temperatures," 10 Sep. 2019 But cancer, lung diseases, and metabolic disorders such as diabetes aren't far behind. — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, "The Diseases That Are Increasingly Killing Americans: Brainstorm Health," 27 Aug. 2019 These results suggest that metabolic biomarker profiling could potentially be used to guide patient care, if further validated in relevant clinical settings. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "Researchers are creepily close to predicting when you’re going to die," 21 Aug. 2019 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), consuming too much added sugars is associated with cardiac and metabolic health issues like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, "How Much Do You Really Need to Worry About Sugar?," 27 June 2019 People with obesity and diabetes also tend to have high triglycerides, a sign of poor metabolic health, a measure of factors such as blood sugar and blood pressure, and other metabolic abnormalities that are damaging to the heart and blood vessels. — Betsy Mckay, WSJ, "Heart Attack at 49—America’s Biggest Killer Makes a Deadly Comeback," 21 June 2019 Gotze, who has overcome a mystery metabolic illness that hampered his debut season back at Dortmund after leaving Bayern Munich, still has one more year on his current contract. — SI.com, "Michael Zorc Claims Dortmund Are 'Relaxed' Over Mario Gotze Future Amid Arsenal Speculation," 5 June 2019 The strain of such journeys can leave birds more susceptible to disease, and the metabolic cost of fighting off infections can leave birds unable to complete their journey or successfully breed at the end of it. — Asher Elbein, New York Times, "Some Birds Are Better Off With Weak Immune Systems," 25 June 2018 In animals, exposure to stress, cold, or high-fat diets has been shown to trigger metabolic changes in later generations. — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, "Parents’ emotional trauma may change their children’s biology. Studies in mice show how," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'metabolic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for metabolic
metabolic
adjective
met·a·bol·ic
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Kids Definition of metabolic
: of or relating to metabolism
metabolic activity
metabolic
adjective
met·a·bol·ic
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Medical Definition of metabolic
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: of, relating to, or based on metabolism
2
: vegetative sense 1a(2)
—used especially of a cell nucleus that is not dividing
Other Words from metabolic
metabolically
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adverb
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