metabolically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"The fitter you are, the more metabolically efficient your body becomes," Professor La Gerche explains.
From Science Daily
The houses are still modest, certainly by comparison to the metabolically overwrought mansions of Beverly Hills and West L.A., but now the prices, like the views, are spectacular.
From Los Angeles Times
The group that had their AC3-AT protein removed, gained less weight than the control group and were metabolically healthier.
From Science Daily
Having a strong sense of smell can be metabolically costly, Bird notes, so it’s possible that domestication and reliance on humans for food slackened the evolutionary pressure to maintain such a sharp olfactory edge.
From Science Magazine
"The T cells were better able to do their job in the metabolically healthy mice at the time of vaccination," Schultz-Cherry said.
From Science Daily
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