METABOLISM in a Sentence

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Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis.

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 Meanings and Examples of METABOLISM
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metabolism
 n.  chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism to maintenance of life
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1  This drug speeds up your metabolism.
2  Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis.
3  When you then get down to a lower weight, the damage to metabolism is still there, invisible, affecting all your efforts to control your weight.
4  Radioactive tracers have been used to map the metabolic activity of the brain.
5  Your metabolic rate is the speed at which your body transforms food into energy.
6  A feature that characterizes all anteaters is an extremely slow metabolic rate.
7  Fish normally have a high metabolic rate.
8  We need to eat less as we get older and our metabolic rate slows down.
9  It's quite likely that a reduction in calorie intake yields a reduction in metabolic rates.
10  Building up muscle mass is going to cause you to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate.
11  In biochemistry, a metabolic pathway is a series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell.