basal metabolic rate

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noun Physiology.

the rate at which energy is expended in a basal condition, calculated as calories per hour per square meter of body surface and compared with a normal standard expressed as the percentage above or below the amount of oxygen normally used at rest, −15 to +5 percent being considered normal. Abbreviation: BMR

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Origin of basal metabolic rate

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby basal metabolic rate

basal cell carcinoma, basal conglomerate, basal disk, basal ganglia, basal ganglion, basal metabolic rate, basal metabolism, basal reader, basal ridge, basalt, basaltware

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How to use basal metabolic rate in a sentence

Having a fever can also affect a person’s basal metabolic rate.
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Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
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With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
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The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.
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At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
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Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.
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In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
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It makes out of the savage raw material which is our basal mental stuff, a citizen.
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At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
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If we turn again in a new direction, it will at any rate not be in the direction of a return to autocratic mediævalism.
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Of course he was contemplating the application of a "two year old hickory," as he went on at the rate of two forty.
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British Dictionary definitions for basal metabolic rate

basal metabolic rate

noun

the rate at which heat is produced by the body at rest, 12 to 14 hours after eating, measured in kilocalories per square metre of body surface per hourAbbreviation: BMR

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Scientific definitions for basal metabolic rate

basal metabolic rate

The rate at which energy is used by an organism at complete rest, measured in humans by the heat given off per unit time, and expressed as the calories released per kilogram of body weight or per square meter of body surface per hour.