What does «desasimilación» mean in Spanish?

• In biology, another name, already outdated, for catabolism: phase of metabolism constituted by the set of biochemical reactions that disintegrate living matter, therefore they are metabolic processes of degradation. It is the decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the opposite of assimilation.
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "La desasimilación viene compensada por la asimilación. Si no fuese así, la materia viviente se consumiría como se consume el combustible de una máquina", Principio y término de la biología - Página 123, 1981
  
  
• The act or state of ceasing to be or becoming less assimilated or integrated, said particularly of ethnic groups. The reverse process of assimilation.
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "Los sionistas también creyeron que la “desasimilación”, combinada con la emigración a Palestina de los judíos jóvenes y, como esperaban, de los judíos capitalistas, podía ser una “solución mutuamente justa", Hannah Arendt.

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