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metabolize, v. Biol.|mɛˈtæbəlaɪz|
[f. Gr. µεταβολή change + -ize.]
1. trans. To affect by metabolism. Hence meˈtabolized ppl. a.
1887Science 18 Mar. 264/1 We doubt the value to a man of a mass of indefinite ill-digested text-book information. Occasionally an omnivore can take in everything, and digest and so metabolize it as to organize it into healthy mental tissue. 1900Lancet 28 July 248/1 The removal of the incompletely metabolised end products. 1905Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 444 His plain rational diet is digested—metabolized and assimilated.
2. intr. To perform metabolism.
1934in Webster. 1943Bacteriol. Rev. VII. 139 The animal tissue cell is formed and metabolizes in an environment which is stabilized within narrow limits compared with the wide range of..conditions to which bacteria are subjected. 1971Sci. Amer. Dec. 36/3 The anoxybiotic species does not stop metabolizing as soon as it encounters anaerobic conditions; it continues to metabolize for as long as six days, even though the new metabolic end product is unusual and potentially harmful.
Add: Hence meˈtabolizer n., an individual or organism that metabolizes a particular substance.
1970Nature 11 July 193/1 These precursors of normal excretory products in mammals are found in measurable quantities in known metabolizers. 1977Lancet 17 Sept. 586/1 Since the mother must carry the n allele for two sons to be nn and must also carry the e allele for the third son and herself to be extensive metabolisers [of debrisoquine], then she herself can only be heterozygous (en). 1988Nature 14 Jan. 185/2 For this analysis, I identified as sulphur metabolizers the three eocytes. |