metabasis
[ mĭ-tăb′ə-sĭs ]
n.
A change in the symptoms, course, or treatment of a disease.
Nearby words
- meta,
- meta tag,
- meta-,
- meta-dichlorobenzene,
- meta-ethics,
- metabiosis,
- metabisulfite test,
- metabolic,
- metabolic acidosis,
- metabolic alkalosis
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Examples from the Web for metabasis
From the understanding to the reason, there is no continuous ascent possible; it is a metabasis even as from the air to the light.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (of 2)|Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCertain philosophers have, nevertheless, allowed themselves the liberty of making such a saltus (metabasis eis allo gonos).
The Critique of Pure Reason|Immanuel Kant