It used to be said that the male was more "katabolic," the female more "anabolic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family] Reference

Anabolic: the constructive change from food material to animal tissue: see katabolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

These chemical changes are of various kinds, but the great source of heat is the katabolic process, known as oxidation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Both katabolic and anabolic changes share in the depression, and though less energy is used up, still less energy is generated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Metabolism: is transformation: the whole process or series of changes of food into tissue and cell-substance and of these latter into waste products the first of these changes being anabolic, the second katabolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

I wrote a second paper on glycogen and its relation to katabolic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

The medium by which these katabolic changes are set going and controlled is the nervous system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

In the male metabolism is much more rapid than in the female; hence the male organism is said to be more katabolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sociology and Modern Social Problems] Reference

Man's katabolic nature and his greater freedom have given him almost a monopoly of crime under these laws which he has made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in Modern Society] Reference

Thomson and others have maintained that the sex-difference is one of metabolism, the ovum being more anabolic, the sperm more katabolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

Various visual substances by their anabolic or katabolic changes are supposed to produce the variations of sensation of light and colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

May not the ecbolic period in men be compared to the menstrual period in women, and be an example of the greater katabolic activity of men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference

To put it more precisely, the life-ratio of anabolic to katabolic changes, A/K, in the female is normally greater than the corresponding life-ratio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference

If men are more capable in expressing the katabolic needs of aggression and protection, women must furnish the anabolic products of care and conservation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in Modern Society] Reference

It is also supposed that the metabolic changes consist of two phases, the upward, constructive, or anabolic phase, and the downward, destructive, or katabolic phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

My brain-cells are believed to excite each other from next to next (by contiguous transmission of katabolic alteration, let us say), and to have been doing so long before this present stretch of lecturing-activity on my part began.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

On the whole, the authorities consider that man is made for the discharge of energy at a high rate for a short time, he is the katabolic element, while woman stores up energy for her children and represents the anabolic element of the race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundations of Personality] Reference

The typical plant is, on whole, passive and synthetic, or anabolic; the typical animal, active and katabolic; and the excess of kataboly over anaboly in the animal is compensated for by the anabolic work stored up, as it were, by the plant, which is, directly or indirectly, the animal's food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

The change may be all in the direction of advancing civilization; but just as in the assimilation of our subject races, the philosophic mind must be distressed by the disappearance of so many varieties of speech, customs, and artistic and industrial products, so in this present assimilation, one cannot help regretting the steady disappearance of the katabolic qualities of the human male.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in Modern Society] Reference

(metabolism); for the ratio of the constructive (anabolic) changes to the disruptive (katabolic) ones, that is of income to outlay, of gains to losses, is a variable one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference

Compared with the female, the male animal is katabolic; he is active, impulsive, destructive, skilful, creative, intense, spasmodic, violent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in Modern Society] Reference