metabolic pool

metabolic pool
metabolic pool n the pool of absorbable substances that are or can be involved in metabolism

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the entire mass of labile and reactive substances in the body, to which and from which innumerable substances continuously pass; also used in a restricted sense to mean the extracellular pool or the potassium pool.

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