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Metabolism is the set of chemical processes by which your body changes food into energy you can use, and into the bits it needs to grow, heal, and keep warm. It also breaks down old material and clears it away. People often talk about a “fast” or “slow” metabolism, meaning the body seems to burn energy quickly or slowly. Though actually, that everyday picture is tidier than the truth: metabolism is many jobs together, not one speed switch inside you. Scientists sometimes group the work into building-up and breaking-down. You will meet the word in health class, at the doctor’s, and in diet talk. It began as a science word, but it has walked into ordinary conversation. Plants and other living things have a metabolism too, not only people.
組成From Ancient Greek metabolḗ (“change”), built from meta- + bállō (“to throw”), with a noun ending of the -ism type (a system or process). The old pieces add up to the idea of a change.
同家族的字
- metabolicthe adjective: of those processes
- metabolizethe verb: to carry out those processes
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Metabolismname
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A post-war Japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
metabolismnoun/mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.əm/
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medicinephysiologysciencesThe chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require oxygen
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medicinephysiologysciencesThe rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
- Small animals have a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose more body heat
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The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
- The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
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