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From ana- (“upwards”, compare anabolism) + Ancient Greek στατός (statós, “placed, standing”), from ἵστημι (hístēmi).
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anastate
Today it means: One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm. Full definition →