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Definitions: Catabolic |
CatabolicAdjective1. Relating to or characterized by catabolism. 2. Characterized by destructive metabolism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CatabolicSynonym: katabolic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: anabolic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Catabolic |
| Specialty definitions using "catabolic": intermediate catabolic product ♦ Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System ♦ Methanogens ♦ Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System. (references) |
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Health | In the metabolically stable patient, net protein catabolic rate reflects protein intake. (references) | |
Measurement of urinary urea nitrogen to assess net protein catabolic rate (PCR) can be useful for monitoring protein intake. (references) | ||
When malnutrition is present, emphasis on adequate caloric intake, greater amounts of dietary protein of up to 1 to 1.2 g/kg are called for in order to allow nutritional repletion or to counter the catabolic effects of stress. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Catabolic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Catabolic" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "catabolic": anabolic vs catabolic ♦ intermediate catabolic product. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
catabolic food | 42 |
catabolic diet | 33 |
catabolic | 21 |
catabolic food list | 7 |
anti catabolic | 4 |
catabolic steroid | 3 |
catabolic state | 2 |
free catabolic diet | 2 |
anabolic catabolic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "catabolic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 分解代谢 (catabolism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nedbrydningsprodukt (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), metabolit (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), konsumptions-agranulocytose (catabolic agranulocytosis), katabolisk undertrykkelse (catabolic repression), katabolisk repression (catabolic repression), katabolisk proces (catabolic pathway), katabolisk nedbrydning (catabolic degradation), katabole steroider (catabolic hormones), katabole hormoner (catabolic hormones), forbrugs-agranulocytose (catabolic agranulocytosis), degradationsprodukt (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | metaboliet (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), katabole weg (catabolic pathway), katabole onderdrukking (catabolic repression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | katabolinen repressio (catabolic repression), katabolinen aineenvaihduntatie (catabolic pathway), katabolinen aineenvaihduntareitti (catabolic pathway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voie catabolique (catabolic pathway), répression catabolique (catabolic repression), métabolite (intermediate catabolic product), hormones cataboliques (catabolic hormones), enzyme catabolique (catabolic enzyme), dégradation catabolique (catabolic degradation), agranulocytose de consommation (catabolic agranulocytosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | katabolisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταβολικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | via catabolica (catabolic pathway), repressione da cataboliti (catabolic repression), ormoni catabolici (catabolic hormones), metabolito (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), enzima catabolico (catabolic enzyme). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 異化 (catabolism, dissimilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いか (and downward, below, catabolism, clothes rack, cuttlefish, dissimilation, doctor, less than, medical department, medical science, not exceeding, squid, the following, the rest, under, up to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이" 작용. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ataboliccay metabolito (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), hormonas catabólicas (catabolic hormones), degradação catabólica (catabolic degradation). (various references) катаболический. (various references) vía catabólica (catabolic pathway), ruta catabólica (catabolic pathway), represión catabólica (catabolic repression), regulación del catabolismo (catabolic repression), metabolito (intermediate catabolic product, metabolite), hormonas catabólicas (catabolic hormones). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catabolic": catabolically. (additional references) | |
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"Catabolic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carambolim, Castabala, catabolised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-i-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: cobaltic. | |
-3 letters: alcaic, boccia, calico, catalo, cicala, citola, cloaca, cobalt, coital, lactic. | |
-4 letters: abaci, aboil, bacca, biota, bloat, bocci, cabal, cacao, cacti, cibol, coact, coala, coati, cobia, colic, labia, lotic, octal, tabla, tical. | |
-5 letters: acta, alba, alit, alto, baal, bail, bait, blat, bloc, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bota, caca, calo, ciao, clit, clot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-i-l-o-t" | |
+2 letters: saltimbocca. | |
+3 letters: lactobacilli, saltimboccas. | |
+4 letters: acrobatically, catabolically, confiscatable, lactobacillus, mycobacterial. | |
+5 letters: accountability, contradictable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 61 62 6F 6C 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - .- -... --- .-.. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t a b o l i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 0061 0062 006F 006C 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376786676881787569 |
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