tricarboxylic acid cycle

Noun tricarboxylic acid cycle has 1 sense

• tricarboxylic acid cycle(n = noun.process) citric acid cycle, krebs citric acid cycle, krebs cycle - in all plants and animals: a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy; Array
is a part of metabolic process, metabolism
is a kind of biological process, organic process
has parts: oxidative phosphorylation