If you are an older patient and if you don’t have the liver and kidney function you had when you were younger you may not metabolize drugs the same way.
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Metabolize
//mɪˈtæbəˌlaɪz//
Synonyms for "metabolize" (8 found)
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Closest matches (2)
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Related words (4)
Verb(1 words)
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9 entriesTranslations
5 translations across 4 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَيَّضَ verb (to cause a substance to undergo metabolism)
- أَيَّضَ verb (to produce a substance using metabolism)
Icelandic
1 entries- breytast við lífræn efnaskipti verb ((intransitive) to undergo metabolism)
Portuguese
1 entries- metabolizar verb ((intransitive) to undergo metabolism)
Russian
1 entries- метаболизироваться verb ((intransitive) to undergo metabolism)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Among the many types of juice, grapefruit stands out from the pack because it changes the way some people absorb and metabolize different drugs.
Source: wiktionary
The genes in question encode two enzymes that metabolize alcohol and its breakdown products; the two enzymes are known as alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase.
Source: wiktionary
We believe this to be the true way to teach zoölogy, for we doubt the value to a man of a mass of indefinite ill-digested text-book information. Occasionally an omnivore can take in every thin, and digest and so metabolize it as to organize it into healthy mental tissue. They are, however, the few.
Source: wiktionary
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