Definition of "disassimilation" []

• The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation. (noun)

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• "By contrast, look at what the combination of economic stagnation and demographic disassimilation has done for the French: six days of rioting in not-so-gay suburban Paris."
• "For the obese from default of disassimilation, Robin recommends a regimen of green vegetables and bread chiefly -- the latter in small quantities, however, and fluids as may be desired."
• "The excessive exercise of the whole body is setting free from the tissues such an amount of excretive matter, and carbon more largely than all the others, that, without a relative action of the lungs to admit the air that oxygen may be absorbed, carbonic acid gas cannot be liberated through the lungs as fast as the waste carbon of the overworked tissues is being made by disassimilation from this excess of respiration."