Basal Metabolism

"Basal Metabolism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Metabolism (e.g., heat production) of an organism in an inactive, awake, fasting state. It may be determined directly by means of a calorimeter or indirectly by calculating the end products of oxidation within the organism or from the amount of oxygen utilized.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Basal Metabolism" by people in this website by year, and whether "Basal Metabolism" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 46 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1996 and 1998 and 2003 and 2014 and 2015 and 2018
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.