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What does metabolic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
  2. Of or pertaining to metabolism
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Root respiration provides metabolic energy for growth and maintenance of root biomass and for ion transport.
At the same time, it stalls the metabolic processes that burn fat for fuel.
She had the respiratory distress and metabolic acidosis of severe malaria, and needed blood urgently.
If acclimation to the stress factor is successful, the metabolic parameter will change dynamically until a new steady-state is achieved.
In this way, the plant can resume aerobic metabolic activity required for long-term survival.
Once adulthood is reached, everyone has a fairly steady rate of calorie burn-up, called the metabolic rate.

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