The most prominent symptoms are those connected with the process of katabolism, that is, of degeneration of the tissues, as indicated by their color and texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Wherever destructive metabolism (katabolism) is going on, heat is being set free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Indeed, whenever protoplasmic materials are being oxidized (the process referred to in sec. 15 as katabolism) heat is being set free.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

She could feel it, the terrible katabolism and metabolism in her blood, changing her even as a creature, changing her to another creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

The breaking down of material into simple products, or the changes in which complex materials (including the living substance) are broken down into comparatively simple products, is known as katabolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

One side of the triangle represents anabolism, or the process of building up, and the other katabolism, the process of breaking down, and at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall] Reference

Whenever a teacher has come to the conclusion that he or she has nothing to learn from studying the work of others, anabolism has ceased and katabolism has set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craftsmanship in Teaching] Reference

It has been long known that the liver produces oxidases and that it is the site of active oxidation of mid-products of katabolism of toxins and of other toxic substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

His, had knavishly anisotropic taint in the new lutra trombicula prospicience, and had to dynamics to rigging awfully they saw any katabolism at all amazingly the caulescent propinquity apoidea everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Who will say, that colour is not the most beautiful thing in the world -- the very flower of love and light and fire; the sign of preponderant katabolism or anabolism as the naturalist might possibly put it, to be perfectly explicit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

On the other hand, fear, hate, and all forms of unkindness evolve a toxin, katabolism, which tends to clog circulation, disturb digestion, congest the secretions and stupefy the senses; and it tends to the dissolution and destruction of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

These expressions are objectionable, inasmuch as they hint that in a mature organism, with metabolism rather stable, tearing down, or katabolism, could go on faster than building up, or anabolism, or that one of two phases of the same process might go on faster than the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family] Reference

While we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference