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A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
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An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.
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Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.
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The brambling finch.
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The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
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Same as Cathetometer.
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Of or pertaining to katabolism; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.
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Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle.
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A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.
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One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.
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The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
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(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
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