Part 6994

<h1>Metabola, Metabolia</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw><hw>Me*tab"o*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Met`a*bo"li*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL. See 1st <er>Metabola</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.</def>

<h1>Metabolian</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*bo"li*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Metabola</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.</def>

<h1>Metabolic</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*bol"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/. See <er>Metabola</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to metabolism; <as>as, <ex>metabolic</ex> activity; <ex>metabolic</ex> force.</as></def>

<h1>Metabolisis</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*bol"i*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <def>Metabolism.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Metabolism</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Me*tab"o*lism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>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 (<stype>anabolism</stype>), or destructive (<stype>katabolism</stype>).</def><-- now sp. catabolism -->

<h1>Metabolite</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Me*tab"o*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol Chem.)</fld> <def>A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.</def>

<h1>Metabolize</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Me*tab"o*lize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>To change by a metabolic process. See <er>Metabolism</er>.</def>

<h1>Metabranchial</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*bran"chi*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Meta-</ets> + <ets>branchial</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchi\'91.</def>

<h1>Metacarpal</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*car"pal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the metacarpus.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A metacarpal bone.</def></def2>

<h1>Metacarpus</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*car"pus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/; <?/ beyond, between + <?/ the wrist.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Artiodactyla</er>.</def>

<h1>Metacenter &or; -tre</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw><hw>Met`a*cen"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> &or; <hw>-tre</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>meta-</ets> + <ets>center</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Hydrostatics)</fld> <def>The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.</def>

<note>&hand; When the metacenter is above the center of gravity, the position of the body is stable; when below it, unstable.</note>

<h1>Metacetone</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Me*tac"e*tone</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>met-</ets> + <ets>acetone</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, <chform>C6H10O</chform>, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.</def>

<h1>Metachloral</h1> <Xpage=916>

<hw>Met`a*chlo"ral</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>meta-</ets> + <ets>chloral</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.</def>