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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
metabolise .
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Examples
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Although the researchers say there could be unknown factors which explain the findings, they suspect it is more to do with the way the body metabolises calories.
New year’s dining and leftovers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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When a plant metabolises CO2 it preferentially selects 12C as it dislikes heavy C isotopes.
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Will Hilton, an entertainment blogger we've heard can't even eat gluten because he metabolises it too weird, get off the hook?
Jennifer Aniston: The Nose Got Fixed But The Tits Are Mine 2007
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During photosynthesis the organism metabolises carbon dioxide from the seawater, this is accompanied by precipitation of calcium carbonate.
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The body metabolises PGA into methylfolate, the normal form of the vitamin transported in plasma.
Folic acid supplementation | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2005
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The blood metabolises fat within cells and converts it to something that the organs and muscles expend as energy,' says Hypoxi expert Rich Hikins.
Evening Standard - Home Bella Blissett 2011
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The cause, they say, may be that the body metabolises aspartame by breaking it down to toxic substances, namely methanol and then formaldehyde which bodies are pickled in at medical school for dissection purposes and formic acid.
The Guardian World News Luisa Dillner 2011
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The blood metabolises fat within cells and converts it to something that the organs and muscles expend as energy,' says Hypoxi expert Rich Hikins.
Evening Standard - Home Bella Blissett 2011
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The drug reportedly causes anxiety, paranoia and turns into a carcinogen when it metabolises in the body.
National Nine News 2010
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Indeed, after exposure to BPA the human body rapidly metabolises and eliminates the substance.
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