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Meanings of katabolic in English

Portuguese
catabólico
Catalan
catabòlic

Characterized by destructive metabolism.

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catabólico

Organic process.

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Examples for "organic process"
Examples for "organic process"
1
When you launch a programme, it is an organic process.
The Guardian
2
Klüver-Bucy syndrome must be distinguished from symptoms of schizophrenia or affective disorder; its presence suggests an organic process.
Pubmed
3
Death was an organic process.
Gravity
4
I suspect this is something akin to an organic process, something that Demeter, the goddess of the Earth would know and understand.
Feminist dot com
5
The lectures of the second group take up the various aspects of human evolution as a special instance of the general organic process.
The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
Usage of katabolic in English
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Expressed in biological formula, the habit of the plant is predominantly anabolic, that of the animal predominantly katabolic.
Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex
2
In the male metabolism is much more rapid than in the female; hence the male organism is said to be more katabolic.
Sociology and Modern Social Problems
3
Geddes and Thomson and others have maintained that the sex-difference is one of metabolism, the ovum being more anabolic, the sperm more katabolic.
Hormones and Heredity / A Discussion of the Evolution of Adaptat...
Translations for katabolic
Portuguese
catabólico
Catalan
catabòlic
Katabolic through the time