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catabolic, a. Biol.|kætəˈbɒlɪk|
Also 9 katabolic.
[f. as next + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting catabolism.
1876Foster Phys. §30 (1888) 43 To distinguish the products..into waste products proper, the direct results of katabolic changes, and into bye products..which cannot..be considered as necessarily either anabolic or katabolic. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 290 The act of fertilization is the anabolic restoration, renewal, and rejuvenescence of a katabolic cell. 1957Encycl. Brit. XV. 303/1 The manifold chemical transformations involved in the building up (anabolism) of more complex materials and the breaking down (catabolism) of these and other substances{ddd} exchange and storage of energy occur—storage of energy in anabolic and release of energy in catabolic change. |