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Metabolism   /mətˈæbəlˌɪzəm/   Listen
Metabolism

noun
1.
The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals.  Synonym: metamorphosis.
2.
The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life.  Synonym: metabolic process.



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... And yet probably no two samples of protoplasm are ever exactly similar in all respects, though we may never be able to detect their precise differences. These differences are due to the fact that the stuff is alive, and within it are constantly going on those changes accompanying metabolism, or the building up and tearing down processes that always accompany life. All separate masses of protoplasm, such as the one-celled amoeba or the individual cells of our own bodies, are constantly taking in food and as constantly throwing off wastes. ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price
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... possible to develop activity on Saturn. These are the "Sons of Twilight, or Life."(17) They enter into reciprocal action with the forces of taste surging up and down within Saturn. By this means their etheric or vital body attains a state of such activity that it may be called a kind of metabolism. They bring life into the interior of Saturn. Hence processes of nutrition and excretion take place. This inner life makes it possible for yet other beings to come into the planet, the "Lords of Harmony."(18) They bestow a dim kind of consciousness ...
— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner
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... recovered from coal smoke, for the gas generated by yeast organisms indwelling in the dough and later killed by the heat of baking, their corpses remaining in situ. But even purified carbon dioxide is itself a rather repugnant gas, a product of metabolism whether fast or slow, and forever associated with those life processes which are ...
— Bread Overhead • Fritz Reuter Leiber
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