Definition of "katabolic" []

• Alternative form of catabolic. (adjective)

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• "It used to be said that the male was more "katabolic," the female more "anabolic.""
• "Anabolic: the constructive change from food material to animal tissue: see katabolic."
• "Metabolism: is transformation: the whole process or series of changes of food into tissue and cell-substance and of these latter into waste products the first of these changes being anabolic, the second katabolic."