to metabolize
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6.5
- verb
- /məˈtæbəˌlaɪz/
- Specialized
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metabolizar
- Some people metabolize alcohol faster than others, affecting their tolerance.
- metabolizing enzyme
- metabolize glucose
- metabolize alcohol
It just means that your body, your liver has metabolized half of the caffeine.
- It just means that your body, your liver has metabolized half of the caffeine.
- This is one of the vitamins on your bottle, Niacin, which gets metabolized into NADNADP.
- Your state of mind even influences the way your food is metabolised.
- She's removed the cause of the problem, and now she's able to metabolize glucose.
- And by digesting, assimilating and metabolizing those nutrients, we are able to create energy.
- So how the cell is made structured within the cell, and also how the cell will use things, metabolize things, break things down, make things within itself.
- And that's what we call the caffeine crash, which is caffeine has a half life and it's metabolized.
- There's an astrobolome in the gut, which are bacterial and fungal species that can breakdown and metabolise oestrogen and other hormones.
- And we know that it also can impact how we metabolise or food.
- And then he, they also burn fecal samples to find out how well he's metabolizing his.
- They, they will, you know, eat fast and metabolize it very quickly.
- The microbiome starts to change and start to metabolize the toxins into non-toxic thing.
- There is those that regulate and those that metabolise.
- It's still in your body at night and so know how you metabolize it.
- Everything that controls our hormones are they control how we look, how we feel, how we metabolize, how we sleep, how we menstruate.
Examples
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Your body metabolizes the proteins.
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So we developed a mechanism to rapidly metabolize components in plants that could be fatal or toxic to us.
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They, they will, you know, eat fast and metabolize it very quickly.
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We metabolize it a little differently when we get older, and you could be just a lot more sensitive to the effects of it.
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So basically the body is run out of glucose and it is shifting to things that it can metabolize from other sources.
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It will metabolize the sugar in his blood for the next three hours.
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Alcohol consumed at that rate is metabolized faster than it can have any effect.
Blog text (27) -
The iron bacteria then metabolize the iron that is solubilized in the process.
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Everything that controls our hormones are they control how we look, how we feel, how we metabolize, how we sleep, how we menstruate.
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They're missing an enzyme which metabolizes a certain kind of sugar, glycogen.
Synonyms
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5.8
To produce a substance naturally inside a living body
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9.8
To break down large substances in living things into smaller parts to release energy
How Digested
- Specialized
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6.5
- Specialized
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7.7
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2.8
- Specialized
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
metabolize = metabolism (transparent) = metabol + ize
Standard verb formation from the noun 'metabolism' using '-ize' yields a predictable meaning 'to undergo or cause metabolic processing'.
Etymology
The word metabolize comes from the old Greek word metabolē, which means 'change' and is the same root you see in metamorphosis. So to metabolize something is to 'change' it inside a living body, for example turning food or medicine into energy or other chemicals.