katabolism
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Alcohol, usually formed as an excretion of the yeast plant, is also found as a mid-product of tissue katabolism.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
Anabolism and katabolism are the two sides of protoplasmic life, and the major rhythms of the respective preponderance of these give the antitheses of growth and multiplication, asexual and sexual reproduction.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The former is constructive metabolism, or anabolism; the latter, destructive metabolism, or katabolism.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
It has been long known that the liver produces oxidases and that it is the site of active oxidation of mid-products of katabolism of toxins and of other toxic substances.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
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