| metaphysical | 1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics. 2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning. 3. Preternatural or supernatural. "The golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal." (Shak) Origin: Cf. F. Metaphysique. See Metaphysics. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| metaphysician | One who is versed in metaphysics. Origin: Cf. F. Metaphysicien. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| metaphysics | 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles. Metaphysics is distinguished as general and special. General metaphysics is the science of all being as being. Special metaphysics is the science of one kind of being; as, the metaphysics of chemistry, of morals, or of politics. According to Kant, a systematic exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge of which is altogether independent of experience, would constitute the science of metaphysics. "Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as "books written or placed after his natural philosophy." But the schools take them for "books of supernatural philosophy;" for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses." (Hobbes) "Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper." (Sir W. Hamilton) "Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori." (Coleridge) 2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. "Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind." (Sir W. Hamilton) "Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics." (Mrs. Browning) Origin: Gr. After those things which relate to external nature, after physics, fr. Beyond, after + relating to external nature, natural, physical, fr. Nature: cf. F. Metaphysique. See Physics. The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of physics. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| metaphysis | A conical section of bone between the epiphysis and diaphysis of long bones. Origin: meta-+ G. Physis, growth (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaphysitis | Inflammation of the metaphysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplasia | <oncology, pathology> The change in the type of adult cells in a tissue to a form which is not formal for that tissue. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form (18 Nov 1997) |
| metaplasis | 1. E.H. Haeckel's term for the stage of completed growth or development of the individual. Synonym: metaplasia. Origin: G. A transformation (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplasm | Synonym: cell inclusions. Origin: meta-+ G. Plasma, something formed (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplastic | Pertaining to metaplasia or metaplasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplastic anaemia | Pernicious anaemia in which the various formed elements in the blood are changed, e.g., multisegmented, unusually large neutrophils (macropolycytes), immature myeloid cells, bizarre platelets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplastic carcinoma | <tumour> A carcinoma in which some of the tumour cells are spindle shaped, suggesting a sarcoma, or in which the stroma shows foci of bone or cartilage; such carcinoma's occur in the upper respiratory or alimentary tract or in the breast. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplastic polyp | A benign small sessile polyp of the large bowel showing lengthening and cystic dilation of mucosal glands; also applied to non-neoplastic gastric mucosal polyp's. Synonym: metaplastic polyp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| metaplexus | The choroid plexus in the fourth ventricle of the brain. Origin: meta-+ L. Plexus, an interweaving (05 Mar 2000) |
| metapode | <zoology> The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda. Origin: NL. Metapodium, from Gr. Behind +, dim. Of, foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| metapodial | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| metastatic |
Of or pertaining to metastasis.
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| metaconule |
in mammalian dentition. Apparantly, this is the same as the hypoconule, that is, a small cusp on an upper molar lying near the line between the protocone (the lingual main cusp) and the metacone (the distal main cusp). If the line is marked by a ridge, the ridge is the postprotocrista. By "main cusp," I mean one of the large cusps defining the vertices of the trigon. See figure at mesostyle.
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| metaphysis |
the sub-terminal, actively growing section of long bones. As opposed to the diaphysis and epiphysis (qv).
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| metameric |
characterized by serial repetition of segments.
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| metabolism |
the process of building the body's molecular structures from nutrients (anabolism) and breaking them down for energy production (catabolism).
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