MPage 131
- English Word Met- Definition That two replacing radicals, in the benzene nucleus, occupy the relative positions of 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 3 and 5, 4 and 6, 5 and 1, or 6 and 2; as, metacresol, etc. See Ortho-, and Para-.
- English Word Met- Definition Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Meta- Definition Alt. of Met-
- English Word Metabases Definition of Metabasis
- English Word Metabasis Definition A transition from one subject to another.
- English Word Metabasis Definition Same as Metabola.
- English Word Metabola Definition Alt. of Metabole
- English Word Metabola Definition Alt. of Metabolia
- English Word Metabole Definition A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.
- English Word Metabolia Definition A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
- English Word Metabolian Definition An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
- English Word Metabolic Definition Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
- English Word Metabolic Definition Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
- English Word Metabolisis Definition Metabolism.
- English Word Metabolism Definition The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
- English Word Metabolite Definition A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
- English Word Metabolize Definition To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
- English Word Metabranchial Definition Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
- English Word Metacarpal Definition Of or pertaining to the metacarpus.
- English Word Metacarpal Definition A metacarpal bone.
- English Word Metacarpus Definition That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
- English Word Metacenter Definition Alt. of -tre
- English Word Metacetone Definition A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
- English Word Metachloral Definition A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
- English Word Metachronism Definition An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.
- English Word Metachrosis Definition The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc.
- English Word Metacinnabarite Definition Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.
- English Word Metacism Definition A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
- English Word Metacrolein Definition A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
- English Word Metacromion Definition A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.