metabolism

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
  2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
  3. (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.

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C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/mɪˈtab.ə.lɪz.əm/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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

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