Significats de katabolic en anglès

Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.

In the male metabolism is much more rapid than in the female; hence the male organism is said to be more katabolic.

Geddes and Thomson and others have maintained that the sex-difference is one of metabolism, the ovum being more anabolic, the sperm more katabolic.