METABOLIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metabolize mean? 

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

1. produce by metabolism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• METABOLIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they metabolize    ... he / she / it metabolizes   
Past simple: metabolized   
Past participle: metabolized   
-ing form: metabolizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce by metabolism

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

metabolise; metabolize

"Metabolize" entails doing...:

digest (convert food into absorbable substances)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

metabolism (the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life)

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in the regulation of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes.

(AHR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of pharmacokinetics that studies the process by which a drug is metabolized by the body.

(Pharmacokinetics: Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A genetic disorder characterized by deficiency of the enzyme short-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase that metabolizes short-chain fatty acids.

(Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Short-Chain Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Metformin is not metabolized and is excreted unchanged by the kidneys.

(Metformin, NCI Thesaurus)

Injection of asparaginase metabolizes the asparagine in the blood, withdrawing the supply of this essential nutrient from tumor cells, and causing asparagine-dependent tumor cells to die.

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

The branch of pharmacokinetics that studies the process by which two or more drugs in a system are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

(Pharmacokinetics: Drug Interactions, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A study of the process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.

(Pharmacokinetic Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Propionyl-CoA is not a common metabolic intermediate in other pathways, so it must be converted into something else to be effectively metabolized.

(Oxidation of Odd-Numbered Chain Fatty Acid Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

As a prodrug, benazepril is metabolized to its active form benazeprilat.

(Benazepril, NCI Thesaurus)

Methyldopa is a prodrug and is metabolized in the central nervous system.

(Methyldopa, NCI Thesaurus)