SEVEN Metabolism. a term in physiology has been fully defined both in English and in Marathi. The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or some special purpose, as in the manufacture of digestive ferments. Hence metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism) or destructive (catabolism) Gra z oyna ARHIALUTGTGT TOUTİNT GIFT T 94:50 ZTT HSİT Tz टाकण्याची किंवा विशेष कार्याकरिता लागणारा अंश दूर करण्याची, शरीरात सर्वभर पसरलेल्या सूक्ष्म गोलकांची शक्ती. The special importance of this term is that the Editor has an equivalent for it . This is one of the happy coinages-illustrating the editor's scholarly instincts. This leads to the ideal medical practitioner sought after today - the (Ecletic physician(See p. 610/Col. 1 of the dictionary). Resort VEF Tacir SH ET OF 3 TOT GCT GAIRT E, and Ranade may be styled as an eclectic lexicographer - the dictionary-maker who has studied the history of English lexicography from its dim beginnings in glosses of monks and priests through several intermediate stages like dictionaries of 'hard' English words down to the epoch-making. Oxford English Dictionary and after years and years of devoted reading and marking of books in literature and sciences and after constant consultations with and co-operation from well-known experts in the many subjects covered in the Dictionary, presented his work which is distinguished by a large number of words and a liberal treatment of each word. Those who have been consulting the Dictionary have testified to the fact that it is so comprehensive in its plan, scope and execution that it practically does away with the need for dictionaries on special subjects such. as : Art and Architecture, Engineering and Technology; Finance and Commerce, Medicine and Surgery, Astronomy and Astrology, Botany and Zoology, etc. They further testify to the 'uptodate' character of the work revealing the state of Marathi language in the twentieth century and its enrichment from the accession of new words introduced by the development of linguistic creations in many fields of activity. Never before had so much authoritative inform Le so much authoritative information on so many English words and phrases been od phrases been presented within so compact yet an allembracing work. - H. S. Bhide
