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Definition 2024

catabolism

catabolism

English

Noun

catabolism ‎(usually uncountable, plural catabolisms)

(biochemistry) destructive metabolism, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials

Antonyms

anabolism

Translations

notion in chemistry

Chinese:
Mandarin: 異化作用 (zh), 异化作用 (zh) ‎(yìhuà zuòyòng)
Czech: katabolismus m
Finnish: katabolismi (fi)
French: catabolisme (fr) m
German: Katabolismus (de) m
Greek: καταβολισμός (el) m ‎(katavolismós)
Hebrew: קטבוליזם (he)

Japanese: 異化 (ja) ‎(いか, ika), 異化作用 ‎(いかさよう, ika sayō)
Polish: katabolizm m
Portuguese: catabolismo (pt) m
Russian: катаболи́зм (ru) m ‎(katabolízm)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: катаболизам m

Roman: katabolizam (sh) m
Swedish: katabolism c
Tagalog: kapsira