METATHESIS
\mˌɛtəθəsˈɪs], \mˌɛtəθəsˈɪs], \m_ˌɛ_t_ə_θ_ə_s_ˈɪ_s]\
Definitions of METATHESIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
By Princeton University
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a chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds (AB+CD=AD+CB)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
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A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
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A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The transfer of a pathological product from one place to another where it causes less inconvenience or injury, when it is not possible or expedient to remove it from the body.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An operation, by which a morbific agent is removed from one place to another, where it may produce less disturbance in the exercise of the functions: - as, for example, in the operation of depressing cataract, or when calculus in the urethra is pushed back into the bladder. Also, Derivation.
By Robley Dunglison
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Artificial transfer of morbid process.
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Replacement of molecular atoms by other atoms.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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