Synonyms for metabolic
meta·bol·ic

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1. metabolicadjective

   of or relating to metabolism

   "metabolic rate"

   Synonyms:
   metabolous

   Antonyms:
   ametabolous, ametabolic

2. metabolic, metabolousadjective

   undergoing metamorphosis

   Synonyms:
   metabolous

   Antonyms:
   ametabolic, ametabolous

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1. List of paraphrases for "metabolic":

   metabolism, acidosis

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How to use metabolic in a sentence?

1. Kristen Knutson:

   The strength of this study is that it is a prospective study, which means short sleep was associated with the development of metabolic syndrome, this is important because the sleep duration was measured before the people had the disease.

2. Nita Forouhi:

   Current guidelines have been criticized by those who favor low-carb diets, largely based on short term studies for weight loss or metabolic control in diabetes, but it is vital to consider long-term effects and to examine mortality, as this study did, a really important message from this study is that it is not enough to focus on the nutrients, but whether they are derived from animal or plant sources.

3. Donald Olding Hebb:

   When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased

4. Michael Orlich:

   In our Adventist Health Study-2 people tended to have lower blood pressures, lower LDL cholesterol, less prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, and less diabetes, broadly defined vegetarians, which includes the pesco - and the semi-vegetarian, have a lower risk of colorectal cancer by about 22 %. Pesco-vegetarians have a lower risk for prostate cancer.

5. Walter Willett:

   The findings should be interpreted cautiously because triglycerides are a sensitive marker of a bad metabolic state related to lower physical activity, high intake of unhealthy carbohydrates and unhealthy fats, and a prediabetic state.