单词 | anabolism |
释义 | anabolismn. Biol. The ‘ascending’ process in metabolism, in which simpler substances, as nutritive matter, are transformed into more complex ones, and thus built up into the living structure of the organism; constructive metabolism: opp. to catabolism n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [noun] > types of disassimilation1809 dissimilation1830 anabolism1886 catabolism1889 basal metabolism1914 hypometabolism1932 hypermetabolism1937 cryptobiosis1959 methylotrophy1972 1886 W. H. Gaskell in Jrnl. Physiol. VII. 46 In other words, metabolism includes the two opposite processes of destruction and construction, or as they may be called of katabolism and anabolism. 1889 P. Geddes & J. A. Thomson Evol. Sex x. 122 These upbuilding, constructive, synthetic processes are summed up in the phrase anabolism. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 206 Metabolism..may be divided into anabolism, the building up, and katabolism, the breaking down, of complex materials. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. II. 318/1 Growth, and all other processes involving chemical synthesis, are processes in which energy is consumed, and all such are grouped together under the title of anabolism. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 309/1 Processes which lead to an increase in chemical complexity making up anabolism. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 309/1 Only the energy of their food can be put to service for anabolism, muscular movement and so on. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2011). < n.1886 |
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