Referring to reactions or biologic pathways that serve in both biosynthesis and degradation ( i.e., anabolism and catabolism). [amphi- + metabolic]
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am·phi·bol·ic .am(p)-fə-'bäl-ik adj having an uncertain or irregular outcome used of stages in fevers or the critical period of disease when prognosis is uncertain <the \amphibolic period is popularly known as the crisis (G. F. Boddie)>
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am·phi·bol·ic (am″fĭ-bolґik) uncertain, vacillating, or having the potential to go in more than one of various directions.Medical dictionary. 2011.