katabolic

It used to be said that the male was more "katabolic," the female more "anabolic."

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

Anabolic: the constructive change from food material to animal tissue: see katabolic.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

These chemical changes are of various kinds, but the great source of heat is the katabolic process, known as oxidation.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

Both katabolic and anabolic changes share in the depression, and though less energy is used up, still less energy is generated.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Metabolism: is transformation: the whole process or series of changes of food into tissue and cell-substance and of these latter into waste products the first of these changes being anabolic, the second katabolic.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

On the whole, the authorities consider that man is made for the discharge of energy at a high rate for a short time, he is the katabolic element, while woman stores up energy for her children and represents the anabolic element of the race.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

Anabolic as well as katabolic processes go on there; i. e., growth as well as decay takes place.

The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920

To put it more precisely, the life-ratio of anabolic to katabolic changes, A/K, in the female is normally greater than the corresponding life-ratio,

Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

In the male metabolism is much more rapid than in the female; hence the male organism is said to be more katabolic.

Sociology and Modern Social Problems 1909

The medium by which these katabolic changes are set going and controlled is the nervous system.

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906