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AmetabolaAmetabola Am`e*tab"o*la, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.)
A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
[Written also Ametabolia.] AmetaboliaAmetabola Am`e*tab"o*la, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.)
A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
[Written also Ametabolia.] Ametabolic
Ametabolic A*met`a*bol"ic, Ametabolous Am`e*tab"o*lous, a.
(Zo["o]l.)
Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
Ametabolous
Ametabolic A*met`a*bol"ic, Ametabolous Am`e*tab"o*lous, a.
(Zo["o]l.)
Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
Antimetabole
Antimetabole An`ti*me*tab"o*le, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Rhet.)
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in
transposed order.
HemimetabolaHemimetabola Hem`i*me*tab"o*la, n. pl. [NL. See Hemi-, and
Metabola.] (Zo["o]l.)
Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis. Hemimetabolic
Hemimetabolic Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing
from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the
grasshoppers and cockroaches.
HolometabolaHolometabola Hol`o*me*tab"o*la, n. pl. [NL. See Holo-, and
Metabola.] (Zo["o]l.)
Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. Holometabolic
Holometabolic Hol`o*met`a*bol"ic, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as
the butterflies and bees.
MetabasesMetabasis Me*tab"a*sis, n.; pl. Metabases. [NL., fr. Gr. ?,
fr. ? to pass over; ? beyond, over + ? to go.]
1. (Rhet.) A transition from one subject to another.
2. (Med.) Same as Metabola. MetabasisMetabasis Me*tab"a*sis, n.; pl. Metabases. [NL., fr. Gr. ?,
fr. ? to pass over; ? beyond, over + ? to go.]
1. (Rhet.) A transition from one subject to another.
2. (Med.) Same as Metabola. Metabola
Metabola Me*tab"o*la, Metabole Me*tab"o*le, n. [NL., from
Gr. ? change; ? beyond + ? to throw.] (Med.)
A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or
treatment.
MetabolaMetabola Me*tab"o*la, Metabolia Met`a*bo"li*a, n. pl. [NL.
See 1st Metabola.] (Zo["o]l.)
A comprehensive group of insects, including those that
undegro a metamorphosis. Metabole
Metabola Me*tab"o*la, Metabole Me*tab"o*le, n. [NL., from
Gr. ? change; ? beyond + ? to throw.] (Med.)
A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or
treatment.
MetaboliaMetabola Me*tab"o*la, Metabolia Met`a*bo"li*a, n. pl. [NL.
See 1st Metabola.] (Zo["o]l.)
A comprehensive group of insects, including those that
undegro a metamorphosis. MetabolianMetabolian Met`a*bo"li*an, n. [See Metabola.] (Zo["o]l.)
An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis. MetabolicMetabolic Met`a*bol"ic, a. [Gr. ?. See Metabola.]
1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to,
or involving, change.
2. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic
activity; metabolic force. Metabolic forceForce Force, n. [F. force, LL. forcia, fortia, fr. L. fortis
strong. See Fort, n.]
1. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor;
might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy;
capacity of exercising an influence or producing an
effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or
impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special
signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a
contract, or a term.
He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.
--Macaulay.
2. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power;
violence; coercion.
Which now they hold by force, and not by right.
--Shak.
3. Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval
combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; --
an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the
plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other
ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
Is Lucius general of the forces? --Shak.
4. (Law)
(a) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary
to law, upon persons or things; violence.
(b) Validity; efficacy. --Burrill.
5. (Physics) Any action between two bodies which changes, or
tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or
motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to
change, any physical relation between them, whether
mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of
any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force;
centrifugal force.
Animal force (Physiol.), muscular force or energy.
Catabiotic force [Gr. ? down (intens.) + ? life.] (Biol.),
the influence exerted by living structures on adjoining
cells, by which the latter are developed in harmony with
the primary structures.
Centrifugal force, Centripetal force, Coercive force,
etc. See under Centrifugal, Centripetal, etc.
Composition of forces, Correlation of forces, etc. See
under Composition, Correlation, etc.
Force and arms [trans. of L. vi et armis] (Law), an
expression in old indictments, signifying violence.
In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of
full virtue; not suspended or reversed. ``A testament is
of force after men are dead.' --Heb. ix. 17.
Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and
controls the metabolism of the body.
No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account;
hence, to do no force, to make no account of; not to heed.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
Of force, of necessity; unavoidably; imperatively. ``Good
reasons must, of force, give place to better.' --Shak.
Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts
in the growth and repair of the tissues.
Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is
inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the
cause of the vital phenomena of the body, as distinguished
from the physical forces generally known.
Syn: Strength; vigor; might; energy; stress; vehemence;
violence; compulsion; coaction; constraint; coercion.
Usage: Force, Strength. Strength looks rather to power as
an inward capability or energy. Thus we speak of the
strength of timber, bodily strength, mental strength,
strength of emotion, etc. Force, on the other hand,
looks more to the outward; as, the force of
gravitation, force of circumstances, force of habit,
etc. We do, indeed, speak of strength of will and
force of will; but even here the former may lean
toward the internal tenacity of purpose, and the
latter toward the outward expression of it in action.
But, though the two words do in a few cases touch thus
closely on each other, there is, on the whole, a
marked distinction in our use of force and strength.
``Force is the name given, in mechanical science, to
whatever produces, or can produce, motion.' --Nichol.
Thy tears are of no force to mollify This flinty
man. --Heywood.
More huge in strength than wise in works he was.
--Spenser.
Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their
orisons, and found Strength added from above,
new hope to spring Out of despair. --Milton. Metabolisis
Metabolisis Met`a*bol"i*sis, n. [NL.]
Metabolism. [R.]
MetabolismMetabolism Me*tab"o*lism, n. (Physiol.)
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 (anabolism),
or destructive (katabolism). Metabolism
Metabolism Me*tab"o*lism, n. (Biol.)
The series of chemical changes which take place in an
organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized
and waste materials are eliminated.
Metabolite
Metabolite Me*tab"o*lite, n. (Physiol Chem.)
A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic
action, as urea.
MetabolizeMetabolize Me*tab"o*lize, v. t. & i. (Physiol.)
To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabranchial
Metabranchial Met`a*bran"chi*al, a. [Meta- + branchial.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs
covering the posterior branchi[ae].
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