How to Diagnose POTS. POTS, which stands for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, is a condition in which your body has trouble responding to sudden changes in position (known as postural changes).http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...
Structure of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a central intermediate in energy metabolism. Metabolism (from Greek: Î¼ÎµÏÎ±Î²Î¿Î»Î® metabolÄ, change) is the set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within the cells of living organisms.
metabolism. 1  Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. 2  any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country's economic metabolism.