| 单词 |
metaptosis |
| 释义 |
‖ metaptosis|mɛtəpˈtəʊsɪs| [mod.L., a. Gr. µετάπτωσις, n. of action of µεταπίπτειν to undergo a change, f. µετα- meta- + πίπτειν (πτω-) to fall.] 1. Med. Change in the nature or the seat of a disease. ? Obs.
1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Metaptosis, the degenerating of one Disease into another, as of a Quartane Ague into a Tertian; and on the contrary, of an Apoplexy into a Palsie. 2. Logic. ‘The change of a proposition from being false to being true, or the reverse’ (Cent. Dict. 1890). |

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