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- English Word Metastasis Definition The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.
- English Word Metastatic Definition Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
- English Word Metasternal Definition Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
- English Word Metasternum Definition The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.
- English Word Metasternum Definition The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.
- English Word Metastoma Definition Alt. of Metastome
- English Word Metastome Definition A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
- English Word Metatarsal Definition Of or pertaining to the metatarsus.
- English Word Metatarsal Definition A metatarsal bone.
- English Word Metatarse Definition Metatarsus.
- English Word Metatarsi Definition of Metatarsus
- English Word Metatarsus Definition That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Metatheses Definition of Metathesis
- English Word Metathesis Definition Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
- English Word Metathesis Definition A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
- English Word Metathesis Definition The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.
- English Word Metathetic Definition Alt. of Metathetical
- English Word Metathetical Definition Of or pertaining to metathesis.
- English Word Metathoracic Definition Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
- English Word Metathorax Definition The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
- English Word Metatitanic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.
- English Word Metatungstate Definition A salt of metatungstic acid.
- English Word Metatungstic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.
- English Word Metavanadate Definition A salt of metavanadic acid.
- English Word Metavanadic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
- English Word Metaxylene Definition That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf/ammable liquid.
- English Word Metayage Definition A system of farming on halves.
- English Word Metayer Definition One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
- English Word Metazoa Definition Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
- English Word Metazoan Definition One of the Metazoa.