metabolism

See also: Metabolism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) +‎ -ism, from μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “to change, to alter”) +‎ -η (-ē, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.əm/, [mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.m̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.əm/, [məˈtæb.əˌlɪz.m̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.əm/, [mɪˈtæb.ə.lɪz.m̩]
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /mɛʈəˈbɔlɪzm̩/

Noun

metabolism (countable and uncountable, plural metabolisms)

1. (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

   Hyponyms: anabolism, catabolism

   The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require oxygen

2. (physiology, by extension) The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism

   Small animals have a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose more body heat

3. (figurative, by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
   • 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, page 230:

     The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

Derived terms

• ametabolism
• bradymetabolism
• cardiometabolism
• chronometabolism
• cometabolism
• dysmetabolism
• endometabolism
• exometabolism
• glycometabolism
• hemimetabolism
• heterometabolism
• holometabolism
• hypermetabolism
• hypometabolism
• immunometabolism
• lipometabolism
• macrometabolism
• metabolite
• metabolome
• metametabolism
• neurometabolism
• normometabolism
• paurometabolism
• photometabolism
• proteometabolism
• protometabolism
• psychometabolism
• radiometabolism
• saccharometabolism
• selenometabolism
• sialometabolism
• tachymetabolism
• thermometabolism

Related terms

• anabolism
• antimetabole
• catabolism
• metabola
• metabolic
• metabolisation
• metabolise
• metabotropic

Translations

complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells

• Arabic: أَيْض (ar) m (ʔayḍ), تَمْثِيل غِذَائِيّ m (tamṯīl ḡiḏāʔiyy), اِسْتِقْلَاب (ar) m (istiqlāb)
• Armenian: նյութափոխանակություն (hy) (nyutʻapʻoxanakutʻyun)
• Asturian: metabolismu m
• Azerbaijani: maddələr mübadiləsi
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: абмен рэчываў (abmjen rečyvaw), метабалі́зм m (mjetabalízm)
• Bulgarian: обмяна на веществата f (obmjana na veštestvata), метаболи́зъм m (metabolízǎm)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: metabolisme m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 代謝 / 代谢 (zh-min-nan) (tāi-siā)

  Mandarin: 代謝 / 代谢 (zh) (dàixiè), 新陳代謝 / 新陈代谢 (zh) (xīnchén dàixiè)

• Czech: metabolismus (cs) m, metabolizmus m
• Danish: stofskifte (da)
• Dutch: stofwisseling (nl) f, metabolisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: ainevahetus, metabolism (et)
• Faroese: evnaskifti n, evnabroyting f
• Finnish: aineenvaihdunta (fi), metabolismi (fi)
• French: métabolisme (fr) m
• Galician: metabolismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნივთიერებათა ცვლა (nivtierebata cvla), მეტაბოლიზმი (meṭabolizmi)
• German: Stoffwechsel (de) m, Metabolismus (de) m

  Central Franconian: Schtoffwääßel

• Greek: μεταβολισμός (el) m (metavolismós)
• Gujarati: ચયાપચય (cayāpacya)
• Hawaiian: pūnao
• Hebrew: חילוף חומרים (he) m (khilúf khomarím), מטבוליזם (he) m (metabolízem)
• Hindi: चयापचय m (cayāpcay)
• Hungarian: anyagcsere (hu)
• Icelandic: efnaskipti n
• Ido: metabolio (io)
• Italian: metabolismo (it) m, ricambio (it) m
• Japanese: 代謝 (ja) (たいしゃ, taisha), 新陳代謝 (ja) (しんちんたいしゃ, shinchin taisha), 物質代謝 (ぶっしつたいしゃ, busshitsu taisha)
• Kannada: ಚಯಾಪಚಯ (kn) (cayāpacaya)
• Kazakh: зат алмасу (zat almasu)
• Khmer: ការដុតរំលាយអាហារក្នុងរាងកាយ (kaa dot rumliəy ʼaahaa knong riəngkaay)
• Korean: 신진대사(新陳代謝) (ko) (sinjin daesa), 물질대사(物質代謝) (ko) (muljil daesa)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: vielmaiņa
• Limburgish: stofwisseling
• Lithuanian: metabolizmas m, medžiagų apykaita f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Stoffwessel

• Luxembourgish: stoffwiessel
• Malay: ungkai bina
• Malayalam: ഉപാപചയം (upāpacayaṁ)
• Māori: whakarau pūngao, whakarautanga pūngao
• Marathi: चयापचय (cayāpcay)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stoffskifte (no) n

  Nynorsk: stoffskifte n

• Persian: متابولیسم (fa) (metâbolism)
• Polish: metabolizm (pl) m, przemiana materii (pl) m
• Portuguese: metabolismo (pt) m
• Quechua: imayay yamkiy
• Romanian: metabolism (ro) n
• Russian: метаболи́зм (ru) m (metabolízm), обме́н веще́ств (ru) m (obmén veščéstv)
• Serbo-Croatian: metabolìzam (sh) m
• Slovak: látková premena f
• Slovene: presnova f, presnavljanje n
• Spanish: metabolismo (es) m
• Swahili: metaboli (sw)
• Swedish: metabolism (sv) c, ämnesomsättning (sv)
• Tagalog: kapbisa
• Tajik: мубодилаи моддаҳо (mubodila-yi moddaho)
• Tamil: வளர்சிதைமாற்றம் (vaḷarcitaimāṟṟam)
• Tatar: алышынуы (alışınuwı)
• Telugu: జీవక్రియ (jīvakriya)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: metabolizma (tr), özgeriş, ^{(please verify)} özgerinç, istiklâp
• Ukrainian: обмін речовин (uk) (obmin rečovyn), метаболі́зм m (metabolízm)
• Uzbek: moddalar almashinuvi
• Vietnamese: trao đổi chất, biến dưỡng
• Welsh: metabolaeth f

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métabolisme.

Noun

metabolism n (uncountable)

1. metabolism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	metabolism	metabolismul
genitive-dative	metabolism	metabolismului
vocative	metabolismule

Swedish

Noun

metabolism c

1. metabolism

   Synonym: ämnesomsättning

Declension

Declension of metabolism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	metabolism	metabolisms
	definite	metabolismen	metabolismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “metabolism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “metabolism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)