Anabolism

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Metabolism \Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.)
     1. The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take
        up and convert into their own proper substance the
        nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by
        which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler
        substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for


        some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the
        digestive enzymes. Hence, metabolism may be either
        constructive ({anabolism}), or destructive ({catabolism}).
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Biol.) The series of chemical changes which take place in
        an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and
        utilized and waste materials are eliminated.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anabolism \A*nab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.)
     The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished
     from {catabolism}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anabolism
       n : synthesis of more complex substances from simpler ones [syn:
            {constructive metabolism}] [ant: {catabolism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "anabolism":
     assimilation, avatar, basal metabolism, catabolism, catalysis,
     consubstantiation, displacement, heterotopia, metabolism,
     metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis,
     metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, permutation,
     reincarnation, sport, transanimation, transfiguration,
     transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation,
     translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation,
     transposition, transubstantiation