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metabolically

metabolically

3 6.1
In a way that relates to how a living body uses food and energy
  • adverb
  • /ˌmɛtəˈbɑlɪkli/
  • Specialized
: metabólicamente
  • Visceral fat is the most metabolically active fraction of body fat mass.
  • metabolically active
  • regulated metabolically

When we are metabolically unhealthy, our sleep suffers.

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Examples

  • There are three fat depots and they are metabolically different.

  • But what all of this research says is that some brain regions in some people are metabolically compromised.

  • These growing cells are metabolically very active, OK.

  • I think for people who are metabolically healthy, I'll include you in that.

  • Elements that are essential for the normal health of animals are well regulated metabolically.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.

    Blog text (19)
  • We need food that is metabolically healthy for us, not metabolically detrimental.

  • Obviously mild cold therapy is also known to activate brown fat, which is metabolically quite active.

  • The periosteum is also more metabolically active in children.

    Academic text (2006)
  • These growing cells are metabolically very active, performing numerous chemical processes efficiently.

Synonyms

biochemically
vsmetabolically
  • Specialized
2 6.7

By chemical processes inside living things

focuses on energy and substance conversion reactions within organisms rather than all chemical processes

Compounds

1 8.3

A person who has problems using food for energy, affecting health or weight

Surface Forms

metabolically positive

Morphology

metabolically = metabolic (transparent) = metabolism + ic + ally

Formed by standard adjective-to-adverb derivation: 'metabolic' + '-ally'; the meaning directly relates to metabolism.

Etymology

The word metabolically comes from metabolism, which itself has Greek parts meta- meaning 'change' and ballein meaning 'to throw'. Think of metabolism as the body's chemical way of 'changing' food into energy, so metabolically means 'in a way that relates to those chemical changes'.