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[Gr. anabolē, a building up + -ism]

The building up of body tissues. It is the constructive phase of metabolism by which cells take from the blood nutrients required for repair or growth and convert these inorganic chemicals into cell products or parts of living cells. SYN: constructive metabolism.

SEE: catabolism; metabolism.

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