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metabolism

Metabolism is a 10 letter word which starts with the letter M and ends with the letter M for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The act or process by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism) or destructive (katabolism).

Syllable Information

The word metabolism is a 10 letter word that has 4 syllable 's . The syllable division for metabolism is: me-tab-o-lism


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