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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy;
[syn: anabolism, constructive metabolism]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Metabolism \Me*tab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.) 1. The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive enzymes. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (catabolism). [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anabolism \A*nab"o*lism\, n. (Physiol.) The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

anabolism n 1: the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy [syn: anabolism, constructive metabolism] [ant: catabolism, destructive metabolism, dissimilation, katabolism]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "anabolism": assimilation, avatar, basal metabolism, catabolism, catalysis, consubstantiation, displacement, heterotopia, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, permutation, reincarnation, sport, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation