basal metabolism

1. 1.

   the amount of energy required to maintain the body of an individual in a resting state

   Broadermetabolism

Questions about basal metabolism

What does basal metabolism mean?

basal metabolism means "the amount of energy required to maintain the body of an individual in a resting state".

Is basal metabolism a common word?

basal metabolism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.