UIS Commission on Karst Hydrogeology and Speleogenesis
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Glossary

Glossary of Karst and Cave Terms

metabolism
The sum of the chemical activities taking place in the cells of a living thing; the sum of the processes by which a living thing transforms food into energy and living tissue [23].