metatarsectomy
metatarso-phalangeal
Belonging to the metatarsus and the phalanges; a metatarso-phalangeal joint.
metathesis
1. A reversal of the order of two sounds or letters in a word, either as a mispronunciation or as a historical development.
2. A "rhetorical transposition of words"; from Greek, then Late Latin metathesis, "change of position, transposition"; from the stem of metatithenai, "to transpose" from meta-, "to change" + tithenai, "to place, to set".
metathroax
metatroph
An organism that requires complex organic sources of carbon and nitrogen for growth.
metatrophic
Denoting the ability to undertake anabolism or to obtain nourishment from varied sources, i.e., both nitrogenous and carbonaceous organic matter.
metazoa, metazoon
Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom
Animalia or
Metazoa.
In general they are multicellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms.
metazoan
A multicellular animal.
metempsychosis
1. Transmigration of the soul; passage of the soul from one body to another; chiefly, the transmigration of the soul of a human being or animal at or after death into a new body (whether of the same or a different species), a tenet of the Pythagoreans and certain Eastern religions; especially, Buddhism.
2. Etymology: from Late Latin, from Greek metempsychosis which came from meta-, "change" + en, "in" + psyche, "soul".
metempsychosist
One who believes in metempsychosis.
metencephalon
1. The anterior part of the embryonic hindbrain, which gives rise to the cerebellum and pons.
2. The cerebellum and pons of the adult brain.
metoesthetism
metoxenous
1. Having more than one host; said of a parasite passing different stages of its life cycle in different animals.
2. Parasitic existence on different hosts at different stages in life-history; also, metoecious and heteroecious.
ommatophobia, ommetaphobia
An exaggerated fear of eyes.
progametangium
The hyphal (filaments or threads composing the mycelium of a fungus) tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium (cell or organ in which gametes develop) and subsequent gametes.
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