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metabasis

[ mĭ-tăb′ə-sĭs ]

n.

A change in the symptoms, course, or treatment of a disease.

Words nearby metabasis

meta, meta tag, meta-, meta-dichlorobenzene, meta-ethics, metabasis, metabiosis, metabisulfite test, metabolic, metabolic acidosis, metabolic alkalosis

Example sentences 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 Coleridge
Certain philosophers have, nevertheless, allowed themselves the liberty of making such a saltus (metabasis eis allo gonos).

The Critique of Pure Reason |Immanuel Kant