Definitions for anabolism

anabolism a·nab·o·lism

Spelling: [uh-nab-uh-liz-uh m]
IPA: /əˈnæb əˌlɪz əm/

Anabolism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

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Definitions for anabolism

noun

  1. constructive metabolism; the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances from simpler ones (opposed to catabolism).

Origin of anabolism

First recorded in 1885-90; ana- + (meta)bolism

Examples for anabolism

We may thus regard every centre of anabolism as a negative pole of diffusion.

Consider, for example, a centre of anabolism in a living organism.

Of course this may be a matter of anabolism, pure and simple.

In this way, anabolism and catabolism exist in balance with each other and are the ying and the yang of metabolism.

The processes concerned in metabolism are chiefly those of building up, “anabolism,” and breaking down, “catabolism.”

anabolism requires the input of energy, in the form of food calories, and is the process by which the body stores energy.

Similar considerations as to the formation and breaking up of the molecules in anabolism and catabolism apply to polymerization.

The former is constructive metabolism, or anabolism; the latter, destructive metabolism, or katabolism.

A very noticeable expression of the anabolism of woman is her tendency to put on fat.

anabolism, the formation of more complex chemical bodies by the agency of protoplasm, 86.

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