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metabolically challenged

adj

Etymology

The second sense is an ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like "mentally challenged".

Definitions

  1. Having difficulty with metabolism.

    • From this evaluation it was evidenced that metabolically challenged dairy cows (on the basis of concentrations of glucose, BHBA, and NEFA) show differences in liver transcripts, compared to metabolically unchallenged dairy cows [...]

  2. Dead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metabolically challenged. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA