Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to render dissimilar or different: specifically, in biology, catabolic (which see): opposed to assimilative.
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Examples
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I do not think it is necessary to suppose, as do Lane-Claypon and Starling, that the hormone physiologically inhibits the dissimilative process and augments the assimilative, and that the withdrawal of the hormone at parturition therefore causes the dissimilative process, _i. e._ secretion of milk.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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