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metabolic, a.|mɛtəˈbɒlɪk|
[ad. Gr. µεταβολικ-ός changeable, or f. metabole + -ic.]
1. Pertaining to or involving transition.
(In quot. humorously pedantic.)
1743Fielding Phil. Trans. Wks. 1775 IX. 231 We are forced to proceed..by the metabolic or mutative [method], not by the schystic or divisive.
2. Biol. and Chem. Pertaining to, involving, characterized or produced by, metabolism.[An adaptation of G. metabolisch, first used in 1839 by Schwann (Mikroskopische Untersuchungen 229).] 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 140 A dialytic, catalytic, or, as Schwann terms it, a metabolic change on the plasma of the blood. 1902D. N. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 560/1 When such functional disturbances affect the general nutrition of the body they have been termed Metabolic Diseases (Stoffwechselkrankheiten).
3. Ent. = metabolous.
1882in Ogilvie.
4. Zool. (See quot.)
1882W. Saville-Kent Infusoria II. 870 Metabolic, changeable in form; applied by Cohn to the Infusoria in the same sense as polymorphic.
5. Biol. Of unicellular organisms, exhibiting metaboly.
1906M. Hartog in Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. v. 125 Such movements, permissible by the perfectly flexible but firm pellicle, are termed ‘metabolic’ or ‘euglenoid’. 1926G. N. Calkins Biol. Protozoa vi. 254 In all cases of amoeboid and metabolic forms the cell symmetry is variable. 1955New Biol. XIX. 116 Change in shape in unicellular organisms is referred to by the somewhat confusing term ‘metaboly’ and organisms which exhibit it are termed ‘metabolic’.
So metaˈbolical a., pertaining to metabolism 2. Hence metaˈbolically adv., in, or as regards, metabolism.
1880Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 309 The next stage..in the history of our doctrine was the..elaboration of the metabolical theory. 1913Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 18 Oct. 1465/1 The total metabolically active tissues of the body. 1928Biochem. Jrnl. XXII. 1049 Patients, suffering from various complaints, though presumed to be metabolically sound. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 178 This classification is important metabolically. 1967[see guanase]. |