CATABOLIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catabolize mean? 

• CATABOLIZE (verb)
  The verb CATABOLIZE has 1 sense:

1. subject to catabolism

  Familiarity information: CATABOLIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATABOLIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catabolize    ... he / she / it catabolizes   
Past simple: catabolized   
Past participle: catabolized   
-ing form: catabolizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to catabolism

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

catabolise; catabolize

Hypernyms (to "catabolize" is one way to...):

oxidate; oxidise; oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

catabolism (breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy)

 Context examples 

Glycolysis is a biochemical pathway in which glucose is catabolized into lactate or pyruvate via enzymatic reactions to generate ATP.

(Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus)

Glycolysis Induction involves initiation of activities of the pathway by which glucose is catabolized into two molecules of pyruvic acid with the generation of ATP.

(Glycolysis Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

Glycolysis Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, the activities of the pathway by which glucose is catabolized into two molecules of pyruvic acid with the generation of ATP.

(Glycolysis Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Aspartate and asparagine are catabolized into oxaloacetate and the Kreb's cycle in a fairly direct pathway for amino acids with four carbons.

(Catabolic Pathway for Asparagine and Aspartate, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This agent is not catabolized and has a long half-life compared to the radioconjugate carbon C 11 thymidine.

(Fluorine F 18 d-FMAU, NCI Thesaurus)

Ethynyluracil is an orally-active fluoropyrimidine analog that inhibits dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, the rate-limiting enzyme that catabolizes and inactivates 5-fluorouracil in the liver.

(Eniluracil / 5-FU Combination Tablet, NCI Thesaurus)

Eniluracil inhibits dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, the rate-limiting enzyme that catabolizes and inactivates 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in the liver.

(Eniluracil, NCI Thesaurus)

Once activated, NOSIII catabolizes L-arginine to NO, which diffuses out of the cell.

(Nitric Oxide Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In addition, valproic acid exerts an antiepileptic effect, likely by inhibiting enzymes that catabolize the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) catabolism and so increasing concentrations of GABA in the central nervous system (CNS).

(Magnesium Valproate, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent binds to and inhibits gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transaminase and its anticonvulsant activity may be exerted by increasing brain concentration of GABA and by inhibiting enzymes that catabolize GABA or block the reuptake of GABA into glia and nerve endings.

(Divalproex Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)