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- verb Alternative spelling of
metabolize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb produce by metabolism
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Examples
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Sleep deprivation causes higher blood sugar levels and interferes with the ability to metabolise carbs which in turn leads to higher insulin and fat storage.
From The Tips Box: Easy RAM, Procrastination Tricks, Weight Loss | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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But sometime around the 31,500th generation, something dramatic happened in just one of the populations – the bacteria suddenly acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, a second nutrient in their culture medium that E. coli normally cannot use.
Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab « Isegoria 2008
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Sleep deprivation causes higher blood sugar levels and interferes with the ability to metabolise carbs which in turn leads to higher insulin and fat storage.
From The Tips Box: Easy RAM, Procrastination Tricks, Weight Loss | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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The chief drawback is that the remedy, derived from the yellow flowering hedgerow plant, interacts with other drugs causing them to metabolise through the body too quickly.
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He further said that the new life form would depend for its ability to replicate itself and metabolise on the molecular machinery of the cell into which it has been injected, and in that sense it will not be a wholly synthetic life form.
US Scientist Close to Creating First Artificial Life Form | Impact Lab 2007
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Both human beings and rodents metabolise orally ingested BPA in the process of digestion.
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A study found that consuming up to 50 per cent of the total daily energy intake at breakfast gives the body time to metabolise calories more efficiently.
New year’s dining and leftovers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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Cirrhosis can impair the livers ability to metabolise naturally produced E.
Ah Spit Zoe Brain 2008
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Recently one of his colonies developed the ability to metabolise citrate in their growth medium, despite E. coli's normal inability to do so.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I assume that everyone wants to improve their ability to metabolise fat calories during and after exercise, more so than carbs.
What's the Point? 2006
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