ureotelicadj.
/jʊərɪəʊˈtɛlɪk/ Biochemistry.
Of an animal or its metabolism: producing nitrogenous waste chiefly in the form of urea.
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cryptobiotic1960
hypermetabolic1962
1924 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 97 227 Clementi enunciated the doctrine that arginase is present in the livers of all those animals which have what he calls a ‘ureotelic’ metabolism—a metabolism, that is, in which urea is the final product of protein degradation—and absent from the livers of those in which protein metabolism is ‘uricotelic’—ending in uric acid.
1972 M. S. Gardiner Biol. Invertebr. xiii. 500 Animals are conveniently classified as ammonotelic, ureotelic, or uricotelic.
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