As a proper noun metabolism
is a post-war japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.
As a noun glucocerebrosidase is
(biochemistry) an enzyme that is needed to cleave, by hydrolysis, the beta-glucosidic linkage of glucocerebroside, an intermediate in glycolipid metabolism, and mutations in which cause gaucher's disease.
metabolism
Noun
(
en noun)
(physiology) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.
glucocerebrosidase
English
Noun
(
wikipedia glucocerebrosidase)
(biochemistry) An enzyme that is needed to cleave, by hydrolysis, the beta-glucosidic linkage of glucocerebroside, an intermediate in glycolipid metabolism, and mutations in which cause Gaucher's disease.
Synonyms
* glucosylceramidase