Word familynounMetabolametabolitemetabonomicsmetabolismmetabolic syndromeadjectivemetabolicmetabolizablemetabonomicmetabotropicadverbmetabolicallyverbmetabolize
(high/low) metabolic rate• He points out that an animal's life span is linked to its metabolic rate.• Aerobic exercise and reduced-calorie diets produce weightloss, but reduce the restingmetabolic rate because they do not maintainmusclemass.• Dieting may also depress the metabolic rate, he says, making it easier to gain weight the next time around.• Since reduced pressure also slows the metabolic rate, it too should slow and lengthen a creature's biological career.• Varanus can also increase its metabolic rate, like mammals but often more effectively.• Bradymetabolism A lowmetabolic rate of heatproduction.• Your metabolic rate will fall; eating just average amounts of food will tend to make you fat.• And you can not safely ginger up your metabolic rate with drugs because of the risk from side-effects.