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basal metabolism

NOUN
minimum energy requirement
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The relationship between basal metabolism and weight is complicated, however, Pontzer says.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Intuition might whisper that a brisk resting heart rate would also correlate with an increased basal metabolism, but that isn’t the case.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Its hormones regulate basal metabolism, oxygen use, nutrient metabolism, the production of ATP, and calcium homeostasis.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

As a result of Depression many hospitals have lately been giving cheap diagnostic services to put their expensive xray, basal metabolism and other machines to some profitable use.

From Time Magazine Archive

Graham, quoted on minimal cost of food, 190–194; experiments by, to ascertain basal metabolism of body, 196.

From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher


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