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metabolic disorder

metabolic disorder

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A health problem where the body cannot use food or energy properly
  • noun
  • /ˌmɛtəˈbɑlɪk dɪsˈɔrdər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : trastorno metabólico
  • Ruminal acidosis is a metabolic disorder caused by feeding errors in ruminants that may be manifested in acute or subacute form.
  • metabolic disorder phenylketonuria
  • inherited metabolic disorder
  • diseases and metabolic disorders

So the metabolic disorder is what's the biggest problem with the world today, insulin resistance, right.

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Examples

  • Exposure to ambient environmental lead has been associated with a wide range of metabolic disorders and neuropsychological problems, especially in children.

    Academic text (1990)

  • In addition to increased fat mass, decreased muscle mass is a key feature in obesity that contributes to several related metabolic disorders.

    Academic text (2018)

  • I have a metabolic disorder.

    Thinner (1996)

  • "That particular fat distribution is dangerous for metabolic disorders."

    Blog text (32)

  • Those in fact are metabolic disorders affecting the brain.

  • Furthermore, it is also indicative of the fact that the rural areas are better familiarized with this metabolic disorder than the urbanites.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Her second attorney, medical malpractice lawyer Robert Ritter, developed evidence that the infant had died from a rare metabolic disorder that produced obscure toxins in his blood.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Woody et al. provide an example of the expanded role school psychologists can assume with children and youth with metabolic disorders as they participate in interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration in assessment and intervention.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The problem of lipid metabolism is influenced not only by the presence of metabolic disorders but also by the fact that they are manifested with other risk factors: hypokinesis, hemodynamic disorders, and obesity.

    Academic text (1996)

  • PCOS, a serious metabolic disorder, has long-term health risks throughout a woman's lifespan, including obesity, prediabetes, and diabetes.

Surface Forms

metabolic disorder singular
metabolic disorders plural

Morphology

metabolic + disorder

The noun meaning is directly built from the adjective 'metabolic' (relating to metabolism) plus 'disorder' (a medical condition), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a health condition involving metabolism. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English formation, making the MWE immediately predictable rather than idiomatic.

Etymology

Metabolic disorder combines metabolic, about the body's way of 'processing' food and energy, and disorder, meaning 'out of order'. Imagine the body as a small factory where machines turn food into fuel. If those machines break or work wrongly, the system goes 'out of order', so the phrase means a problem with how the body processes food or energy.