tricarboxylic acid cycle

noun

: krebs cycle

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One of the pathways that's inhibited is the tricarboxylic acid cycle, or Krebs cycle, which is how cells generate energy through aerobic respiration. —

Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018

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1945, in the meaning defined above

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