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NOTE TO STAFF & WEBMASTER: The definition below is best viewed in the "Unicode" version of the font "Courier New" (to see all of the symbols such as the middle-dot "·", schwa "ə", etc. Please do whatever you think necessary to make it viewable for all on your website. Thanks in advance. {Definition} Kreb·u·late (krĕb"·yōō·lāt') VERB: 1. To merely exist. To do nothing more than be. 2. To be wholly lazy with oneself; To be so smally active as to be inactive. Kreb·u·la·ting (krĕb"·yōō·lā'·teeng) TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. The ongoing process of merely existing. Kreb·u·lat·er (krĕb"·yōō·lāt'·ər) NOUN: 1. One who merely exist. Kreb·u·la·tion (krĕb'·yōō·lā"·shən) NOUN: 1. The act of merely existing. Kreb·u·lant (krĕb"·yōō·lănt') ADJECTIVE: 1. The state of merely existing. Kreb·u·lance (krĕb"·yōō·lăns') NOUN: 1. The effect of the act of merely existing. {based-on the stem name "Sir Hans Adolf Krebs" (German born British physician and biochemist) who, in 1937 (along with seminal work from Albert Szent-Györgyi) identified the cellular metabolic process now commonly called the "Kreb cycle" (a.k.a.: the "citric acid cycle" or the "tricarboxylic acid cycle.") As the process suggests; what is needed for the cell's energy production (and storage and eventual release, as well as other needed processes for it to exist and merely function) so it is with this definition.}
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