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BASAL METABOLISM

Heat manufacture, or its measurement, of an organism at the lowest level of cell chemistry in an inactive, awake, fasting state. It may be certain directly by means of a calorimeter or indirectly by calculating the heat manufacture from an analysis of the end commodity of oxidation within the organism or from the amount of oxygen utilised.
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