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What does metabolize mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To undergo metabolism.
  2. (transitive) To cause a substance to undergo metabolism.
  3. (transitive) To produce a substance using metabolism.
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Because of my metabolic problems, my body doesn't metabolize the food correctly.
More than half of all Pima Indians over age 35 have diabetes, a condition arising from a body's decreased ability to metabolize glucose.
Tritiated corticosterone was used to determine how one male and one female stonechat metabolize and excrete that steroid.
These strains might not even use their lac gene products to metabolize lactose.
The less you eat, the less you metabolize, the fewer reactive oxygen species you generate, and the less damage you do to your cellular machinery.
Each drug alone has its own potential for side effects, especially in the elderly and the chronically ill who don't metabolize well.

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