ALL meanings of hypermetabolism
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H h - noun hypermetabolism The physiological state of increased metabolic activity, typically occurring after significant damage to the body. 1
- noun hypermetabolism Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism. 1
- noun hypermetabolism any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism. 1
- noun hypermetabolism an excessive increase in metabolic activity 0