"anabolism" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ə.ˈnæ.bə.ˌlɪ.zəm/ Forms: anabolisms [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ism. Formed in analogy with metabolism. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|ἀνα-|t=up}} Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”), {{m|grc|βάλλω|t=I throw}} βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”), {{af|en|-ism}} -ism, {{m|en|metabolism}} metabolism Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} anabolism (usually uncountable, plural anabolisms)
  1. The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism. Wikipedia link: anabolism Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: osteoanabolism Related terms: anabolic, anabolize Translations (the constructive metabolism of the body): anabolizmi (Albanian), anabolisme [masculine] (Catalan), 同化作用 (tónghuà zuòyòng) (Chinese Mandarin), anabolismus [masculine] (Czech), anabolisme (Danish), anabolisme [neuter] (Dutch), anabolo (Esperanto), anabolism (Estonian), rakennusaineenvaihdunta (Finnish), anabolia (Finnish), anabolisme [masculine] (French), Anabolismus [masculine] (German), αναβολισμός (anavolismós) [masculine] (Greek), anabolizmus (Hungarian), asszimiláció (Hungarian), anabolisme (Indonesian), borrshó [masculine] (Irish), anabalacht [feminine] (Irish), anabolismo (Italian), 同化 (dōka) (alt: どうか) (Japanese), 同化作用 (dōka sayō) (alt: どうかさよう) (Japanese), 합성대사 (hapseongdaesa) (Korean), anabolisme (Norwegian), anabolisme (Occitan), فراگشت (Persian), anabolizm [masculine] (Polish), anabolismo (Portuguese), анаболи́зм (anabolízm) [masculine] (Russian), анаболизам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), anabolizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), anabolizmus [masculine] (Slovak), anabolizem [masculine] (Slovene), anabolismo [masculine] (Spanish), anabolisme (Sundanese), anabolism (Swedish), kapyari (Tagalog), กระบวนการสร้าง (gràbuan gaan sâang) (Thai)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.