metabolic process

Questions about metabolic process

What does metabolic process mean?

metabolic process means "the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life".

What is another word for metabolic process?

Close synonyms include metabolism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metabolic process a common word?

metabolic process 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.