Anabolism Definition

ə-năbə-lĭzəm
noun
The process in a plant or animal by which food is changed into living tissue; constructive metabolism.
Webster's New World
The phase of metabolism in which simple substances are synthesized into the complex materials of living tissue.
American Heritage Medicine

The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism.

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Noun

Singular:
anabolism
Plural:
anabolisms

Origin of Anabolism

  • From Ancient Greek ἀνά (ana, “up”) + βάλλω (ballō, “I throw”) + -ism. Formed in analogy with metabolism.

    From Wiktionary

  • ana– (meta)bolism

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Anabolism Sentence Examples

  • Androstenedione does not stimulate muscle protein anabolism in young healthy men.

  • Studies show that glutamine supplementation after exercise stimulates anabolism and increases glycogen storage [8 ].

  • Hering has long insisted on a self-regulative adjustment of the cell metabolism, so that action involves reaction, increased catabolism necessitates after-increase of anabolism.

  • If natural sleep is the expression of a phase of decreased excitability due to the setting in of a tide of anabolism in the cells of the nervous system, what is the action of narcotics ?

  • Dietary changes that may be helpful The body repairs and builds new tissues in a process called anabolism.

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MSMISM

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