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metabolizable

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metabolizable
capable of being converted by metabolism.

metabolizable energy (ME)
said of a feed or ration, the net energy available to an animal after the utilization of some energy in the processes of digestion and absorption and the loss of some of the material as being undigested or indigestible.


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