Biol. [f. Gr. κατά down + στατ-ός placed.] One of the simpler products resulting from katabolism in a living organism.
1889. Geddes & Thomson, Evol. Sex, xii. 162. The essentially katabolic male cell … brings to the ovum a supply of characteristic waste products or katastates, which stimulate the latter to division.
1893. J. R. Davis, Biol. (ed. 2), I. 13. Katabolism … involves the degradation of protoplasm into simpler and simpler compounds (katastates).
