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
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american 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.
By Daniel Lyons
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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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