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Metabolism vs Toxication - What's the difference?

metabolism | toxication |

As nouns the difference between metabolism and toxication

is that metabolism is (physiology) the complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells while toxication is (biochemistry) the metabolism of a drug or other compound to produce a toxic metabolite.

metabolism

English

(wikipedia metabolism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physiology) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.

    • toxication

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia toxication) (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) the metabolism of a drug or other compound to produce a toxic metabolite