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• Metabolic rate, basal — A measure of the rate of metabolism. For example, someone with an overly active thyroid will have an elevated basal metabolic rate …   Medical dictionary

• Basal metabolic rate — (BMR), and the closely related resting metabolic rate (RMR), is the amount of daily energy expended by humans and animals at rest. Rest is defined as existing in a neutrally temperate environment while in the post absorptive state. In plants,… …   Wikipedia

• Metabolic equivalent — The metabolic equivalent of task (MET), or simply metabolic equivalent, is a physiological concept expressing the energy cost of physical activities[1] as multiples of resting metabolic rate (RMR) and is defined as the ratio of metabolic rate… …   Wikipedia

• Metabolic age — refers to a number calculated by comparing your Basal Metabolic Rate to the Basal Metabolic Rate average of your chronological age group. Chronological age is your age in calendar years. Basal metabolic rate is the amount of energy consumed per… …   Wikipedia

• Metabolic advantage — is a term used in nutrition to describe the ability of a diet to achieve greater weight loss (or less weight gain[1]) than another diet of equivalent calories.[2] It is a claimed effect of low carbohydrate diets and was popularised by the Atkins… …   Wikipedia

• basal metabolic rate — Physiol. the rate at which energy is expended in a basal condition, calculated as calories per hour per square meter of body surface and compared with a normal standard expressed as the percentage above or below the amount of oxygen normally used …   Universalium

• Basal metabolic rate — A measure of the rate of metabolism. For example, someone with an overly active thyroid will have an elevated basal metabolic rate …   Medical dictionary

• basal metabolic rate — noun Date: 1922 the rate at which heat is given off by an organism at complete rest …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• basal metabolic rate — noun The amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment, in the post absorptive state …   Wiktionary

• basal metabolic rate — 1) Общая лексика: скорость осно (количество энергии, необходимое человеку для жизни, при условии отсутствия физической нагрузки; определяется количеством тепла, приходящимся на единицу массы человеческого тела в сутки) 2) Биология: интенсивность… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь