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metabonomics

metabonomics noun: the study of the metabolic responses of organisms to stimuli such as disease or injury.

Noun

metabonomics (uncountable)

  1. The study of the metabolic responses of organisms to stimuli such as disease or injury.
    • Metabonomics broadly aims to measure the global, dynamic metabolic response of living systems to biological stimuli or genetic manipulation. The focus is on understanding systemic change through time in complex multicellular systems. Metabolomics seeks an analytical description of complex...2008 October 22, Jeremy K. Nicholson, John C. Lindon, “Metabonomics”, in Nature, →DOI
    • All metabonomics studies result in complex multivariate data sets the require visualisation software and chemometric and bioinformatic methods for interpretation.2011, The Handbook of Metabonomics and Metabolomics, page 11

Examples of metabonomics in a sentence

  • Metabonomics broadly aims to measure the global, dynamic metabolic response of living systems to biological stimuli or genetic manipulation.2008 October 22, Jeremy K. Nicholson, John C. Lindon, “Metabonomics”, in Nature, →DOI:
  • Metabonomics has great potential for intensive care medicine, where patients are complex and understanding the relationship of host factors, disease and treatment effects is key to improving care.2016 March 16, David Antcliffe, Anthony C. Gordon, “Metabonomics and intensive care”, in Critical Care, →DOI:

Words formed from metabonomics

Questions about metabonomics

What does metabonomics mean?
Metabonomics means the study of the metabolic responses of organisms to stimuli such as disease or injury.
How do you use metabonomics in a sentence?
Metabonomics broadly aims to measure the global, dynamic metabolic response of living systems to biological stimuli or genetic manipulation.
What part of speech is metabonomics?
Metabonomics is a noun.

Words near metabonomics in the dictionary

  1. metabonome
  2. metabonomes
  3. metabonomic
  4. metabonomical
  5. metabonomically
  6. metabonomics
  7. metaborate
  8. metaborates
  9. metaboreceptor
  10. metaboreceptors
  11. metaboreflex

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