metabolic
One adjective covers energy use, inherited enzyme faults, acid balance and a cluster of risk factors, so context decides its meaning.
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213 matchesmetabolic acidosis
Metabolic acidosis is a drop in blood pH caused by excess acid production or loss of the body's bicarbonate buffer.
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A condition in which normal metabolic processes are disrupted, usually because of a missing enzyme.
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Metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of findings, including abdominal obesity and abnormal blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol levels, that together raise cardiovascular and diabetes risk.
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Metabolic syndrome X is an older name for metabolic syndrome, the clustering of abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and abnormal glucose and lipid levels.
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Treatment to correct changes in metabolism that can be caused by disease.
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In alternative medicine, a theory that people fall into one of three groups (protein, carbohydrate, or mixed type) based on the main type of food that their bodies need to stay healthy.
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Two opposing sets of reactions run at once, one tearing molecules apart for energy and the other spending that energy building new ones.
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A substance made or used when the body breaks down food, drugs or chemicals, or its own tissue (for example, fat or muscle tissue).
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A taste of coins or blood with nothing metal in the mouth, arising from the taste and smell pathways rather than the food.
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Metaplasia is a reversible change in which one mature cell type is replaced by another, typically in response to ongoing irritation or stress.
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A general term used to describe cancer that begins in cells that have changed into another cell type (for example, a squamous cell of the esophagus changing to resemble a cell of the stomach).
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Surgery to remove one or more metastases (tumors formed from cells that have spread from the primary tumor).
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A tumor in the liver made of colon cells is still colon cancer, which is why origin governs treatment rather than address.
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A tumor found in the liver may still be breast cancer, because spreading cells keep the identity of where they began.
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Metasynchronous describes a second finding, such as a related tumor, identified within a short interval of the first rather than at the same time.
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A chemical process in which oxygen is used to make energy from carbohydrates (sugars).
Read definitionagnogenic myeloid metaplasia
A progressive, chronic disease in which the bone marrow is replaced by fibrous tissue and blood is made in organs such as the liver and the spleen, instead of in the bone marrow.
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A drug that works by imitation, close enough to a natural building block to be taken up and wrong enough to jam the machinery.
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Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the bone marrow.
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