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Six example sentences with metabolic, each labelled with its topic.
The endocrinologist ordered a full metabolic panel after the patient reported constant thirst and steady weight loss.
Medicine
Interval training raises your metabolic rate for hours afterward, which is why the session feels short but taxing.
Fitness
Cold water slows the metabolic activity of trout, so they feed far less through the darkest winter weeks.
Environment
Cells break glucose down through a metabolic pathway of ten steps, each one handled by a different enzyme.
Science
The watch estimates your metabolic rate from heart rate and movement, though the number is only a rough guess.
Technology
In the 1780s Lavoisier measured a guinea pig's metabolic heat with ice, proving that breathing is a slow form of burning.
History
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