a. Biol. [f. as next + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting katabolism.
1876. Foster, Phys., § 30 (1888), 43. To distinguish the products … into waste products proper, the direct results of katabolic changes, and into bye products … which cannot … be considered as necessarily either anabolic or katabolic.
1894. H. Drummond, Ascent Man, 290. The act of fertilization is the anabolic restoration, renewal, and rejuvenescence of a katabolic cell.
