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A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

Somewhat loose.

A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.

The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.

Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.

The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.

Stoppage of the mences.

A transition from one subject to another.

Metabolism. [R.]

The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc. Cope.

ng from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

on of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage,…

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Change of form; transformation.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.