“Metabolized” or “Metabolised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “metabolized” and 4 prefer “metabolised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	metabolized	metabolised	Preference
United States	98	2	“metabolized”
United Kingdom	39	61	“metabolised”
India	64	36	“metabolized”
Philippines	96	4	“metabolized”
Canada	95	5	“metabolized”
Australia	32	68	“metabolised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	41	59	“metabolised”
New Zealand	35	65	“metabolised”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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“metabolized”

In the body, taurolidine is metabolized rapidly via the metabolites taurultam…
COCPs are metabolized in the liver and thus…
…short time before it is metabolized by enzymes, pulled back into…
Bolandione is readily metabolized to nandrolone after oral administration,…
Thienopyridines are metabolized in the liver and the…
…for rabeprazole and pantoprazole are metabolized by the hepatic CYP450 enzyme…
Ethocybin is probably metabolized mostly in the liver where…
…small amount of α-KIC is metabolized in the liver by the…
…the glucose molecule can be metabolized anaerobically in a process called…
…all carbohydrates, when it is metabolized, it can produce four Calories…

“metabolised”

…unchanged; 92 percent of the metabolised drug is excreted within the…
…regulator ethephon which is rapidly metabolised to produce ethylene, are used…
…the food chain, are progressively metabolised (detoxified) through a process of
…urea waste product is initially metabolised inside the yeast cell until…
Sub-lethal doses are typically completely metabolised and excreted within four days.
…to COMT but are slowly metabolised by MAO, while the LABAs…
…metabolism of caffeine, which is metabolised in the liver into 12%…
ATP can be metabolised in cardiovascular tissues to pro-aggregatory…
…the oxygen window, where oxygen metabolised is replaced by more soluble…
…drug interactions with other medications metabolised by this enzyme, although the…

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