The flip side of having a higher metabolism is rarely appreciated but is extremely important.
The waste products of digestion, of indigestion, of cellular breakdown and the general metabolism are all poisonous to one degree or another.
A cure consists in changing the manner of living to such a rational standard that full resistance and a balanced metabolism is established.
As a basis of the suboxidation theory of Bence Jones' day, as the cause of gout with Garrod, as a step in our knowledge of metabolism and as a popular fad, uric acid in its time has played many parts.
Whether we term this lithaemia or gout or uric acid diathesis is immaterial, the central fact being that through intestinal toxaemia or some disturbance of normal metabolism we have resulting a persistent poisoning of the blood-current.
The principal process of metabolism is that of making heat out of the fuel given to the "human boiler.
Sidenote: Different forms of exhaustion] The products of cell-metabolism are of two classes, and each class has different effects.
Metabolism and katabolism, indeed all cell-activity, are a priori performances of the mind.
The reaction appears indeed to be intimately connected with the nitrogenous metabolism of the cell, and the whole of the ammonia produced is at once assimilated and does not appear in the fermented liquid.
It seems safer to say merely that a lower metabolismin the female is accompanied by a tendency to store materials.
A Comparison of the Basal Metabolism of Men and Women.
Nearly all of the anatomical and physiological sex differences catalogued by such pioneer workers as Ellis, Ploss, Thomas and Bucura are simply what we should expect from the less active and in some ways peculiar metabolism of woman.
The notion of more "developmental energy" or a higher metabolism in males is borne out in the human species.
The intermediate grades consist, he says, of women whose metabolismleans toward the masculine type.
Indeed, the individual metabolism is the reproductive metabolism.
Socially, the old are of course a very important factor since a changed metabolism sets them somewhat outside the passionate interests which drive people forward, often in wrong directions, in the prime of life.
They store more material, have a lower metabolism and less oxidizing capacity than do the earlier male-producing eggs.
The greater percentage of fat as compared with muscle in women[19], if it is generally true, is what we should expect from a lower metabolism and a tendency to store materials.
A long time will doubtless be required to work out the details of differences in metabolism in the two sexes.
Even though they menstruate, their metabolism is often for the most part masculine in character: indications of this are seen in the bones which are heavy, in the skin which is coarse, and in the aggressive character of the mind.
The laryngeal reflex is lost and food may be quietly inhaled; the entire process of metabolism is low.
The increased metabolism and fever in infection might operate as a protection in two ways--the increased fever, by interfering with bacterial growth, and the increased metabolism, by breaking up the bacteria.
Are the histologic changes in the liver cells due to metabolism or toxic products, or are they "work" changes incident to the conversion of latent into kinetic energy?
In this disease the reflexes are increased, the discharge of energy is greatly facilitated, and metabolism is at a maximum.
In the foregoing we find direct evidence that the products ofmetabolism are not the principal cause of the brain-cell changes.
It is now recognized that metabolism is in some respects quite different in herbivora and in carnivora.
Nuclein metabolism presents important differences in the rabbit and in man, while the mode of neutralizing acid in the body may be cited as another variation in the metabolism of these forms.
Perhaps the most striking examples of differences in the metabolism of different organisms is furnished by the results of studies on the fate of certain poisons introduced into the body.
The metabolism of caffein and theobromin furnish another illustration of differences in the physiological mechanism of animals.
Alcohol is rapidly absorbed and passes at once to the liver, the organ which has most to do with the metabolism of proteid cleavage products.
Substituting this value and the value for basal metabolismof winter raccoons (0.
If the latter is true, then our data for captive animals underestimated the actual energy cost of maintenance metabolism for Procyon lotor in the wild.
The metabolism chamber was constructed from galvanized sheet metal (77.
Conversely, lower summer metabolism is considered to be a mechanism that reduces the potential for heat stress.
Regression lines for three groups of animals in summer extrapolate to zero metabolism at values equivalent to, or greater than, normal T{b}; 38.
Body Temperature and Metabolism in Subspecies of Peromyscus from Arid and Mesic Environments.
Seasonal Effects of Temperature on the Respiratory Metabolism of the Collared Peccary (Tayassu tajacu).
There was no difference in basal metabolism between captive males and females in either summer or winter, and there was no seasonal difference in their basal metabolic rates (Table 2).
Based on this analysis, trapped summer males had a higher basal metabolism than captive males (p<0.
But if even a very small part of the gland is left within the body, the carbo-hydrate metabolism remains unaltered, and there is no diabetes.
A living organism usually displays active metabolism of proteid, but the metabolism may slow down, actually cease and yet reawaken; a dead organism is one in which the metabolism has ceased and does not reawaken.
In his study of truancy, Kline[9] starts with the assumption that the maximum metabolismis always consciously or unconsciously sought, and that migrations are generally away from the extremes of hot and cold toward an optimum temperature.
Foods should favor the completest digestion, so that metabolismbe on the highest plane.
A Learner had to be able to reason out--and quickly--the metabolism of his host.
A basically feline creature, also near the equator, but in a desert region, metabolism unknown.
The zoologist's host-alien might have a metabolism which called for it to drink a pint of water every fifteen minutes or shrivel.
Project Contact had been mostly devoted to giving the student an open mind on metabolism and adaptability to environment.
Defn: The process of constructive metabolism by which carbohydrates are formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light.
The classification of tissues was begun, and the phenomena of absorption of water and salts, the ascent of sap, the absorption of minerals and nitrogen, and metabolism and growth were elucidated.
In all diseases where there is fever, in all diseases where there is pain, nutrition is suspended--metabolism is stationary.
Pregnant women belonging to this class go into confinement with their blood so heavily charged with the by-products of an imperfect metabolism that they are very liable to have septicemia.
Another brake is supplied by the waste products of metabolism in the system, the uric acid, carbonic acid, oxalic acid, etc.
Food will not undergo such an oxidation except in the presence of protoplasm, nor will the phenomena of metabolismoccur except in the presence of living protoplasm.
Metabolism is the result of the oxidation of food, and motion is an instance of transference of force.
The metabolism in pellagra shows certain definite changes from the normal, which point to decreased gastric secretion and increased intestinal putrefaction.
Metabolism studies with diets deficient in water-soluble B.
Karr studied the metabolism of these dogs as regards nitrogen partition but the results give little data that is explicatory of the behavior of the vitamine.
Its influence upon the nutrition and nitrogen metabolismof the rat.
Action of the substances influencing the carbohydrate metabolism in experimental beri-beri.
Let us assume that the requirements of calcium metabolism affect the mass of bone that is selected for, but do not grossly affect the morphology of the bones of that mass.
Thus the economic metabolism between the peasants of Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia on the one hand and German capital on the other proceeds in the following way: in the vilayets Konya, Baghdad, Bazra, etc.
Historically, the accumulation of capital is a kind of metabolism between capitalist economy and those pre-capitalist methods of production without which it cannot go on and which, in this light, it corrodes and assimilates.
It may have a favorable effect on the metabolism and thus improve the general condition so that more food is consumed.
Of course the claim that sodium phosphate has any particular power to control vasomotor rhinitis, hay fever, asthma, and to correct faulty metabolism is foolish.
Metabolism studies of the phosphorus balance with diets containing inorganic phosphorus compounds, as compared with diets containing organically bound phosphorus, are somewhat conflicting in their results.
Proteogens swing the disturbed metabolism back to normal and, by natural processes, build up effective defenses against recurrent bacterial attacks.
He observed, moreover, that if Cladocera are crowded at a low temperature the fat metabolism (with inhibition to growth) is favoured, while at high temperatures and with no crowding of individuals the glycogen metabolism is favoured.
The fundamental physiological difference which this division of labour has produced in the germ-cells is reflected on to the general metabolism of the parents and underlies the sexual differentiation of the latter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metabolism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
