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Metamorphosis (Interworld song)
METAMORPHOSIS is a 2021 drift phonk single by Russian producer INTERWORLD (Ivan Belozerov), sampling DJ Livewire's "Deep Throat" (1993). A TikTok viral hit that reached No. 7 on Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and went platinum in the US.
Metamorphosis (manga)
Metamorphosis (変身, Henshin), also called Emergence or 177013, is a 2013-2016 adult manga by Shindo L serialized in Comic X-Eros, following Saki Yoshida's downward spiral; notorious online via nhentai's page number.
Metamorphosis II
Metamorphosis II (Metamorphose II) is M.C. Escher's 1939-1940 color woodcut, printed from twenty blocks on three sheets, a four-meter cycle beginning and ending with the word metamorphose.
Metamyelocyte
Metamyelocyte: an immature granulocyte of granulopoiesis, derived from the myelocyte and maturing into a band cell; kidney-shaped nucleus, no nucleoli, lineage-specific granules, normally confined to bone marrow.
Metanarrative
Metanarrative: an overarching narrative legitimizing smaller narratives, central to Lyotard's Postmodern Condition (1979) definition of postmodernism as incredulity toward metanarratives; distinct from Genette's narratological metanarrative, a story within a story.
Metandienone
Metandienone (methandrostenolone, Dianabol), 17β-hydroxy-17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one, is an oral 17α-alkylated anabolic steroid, formerly used for hypogonadism at 2.5–5 mg/day, now discontinued medically and prohibited at all times by WADA under S1.1.
Metanephrine
Metanephrine, also called metadrenaline, is the O-methylated metabolite of epinephrine formed by COMT with no activity of its own; elevated plasma levels are a leading indicator of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.
METANET
METANET is a macroscopic second-order traffic flow model and simulation program for motorway networks, developed by Markos Papageorgiou and Albert Messmer and first published in 1990.
Metanoia (μετάνοια) (theology)
Metanoia (μετάνοια) is a Greek New Testament word for a change of mind and reorientation of life toward God, usually translated "repentance" and central to Christian preaching and conversion.
Metapenaeus monoceros
Metapenaeus monoceros, the speckled shrimp or brown shrimp, is an Indo-West Pacific penaeid prawn also found in the eastern Mediterranean, living on muddy bottoms, with overexploited fisheries in the Red Sea and India.
Metaphase
Metaphase: stage of mitosis and meiosis in which condensed chromosomes align on the metaphase plate at the cell center, held by cohesin, checked by the spindle assembly checkpoint, and used in karyotyping.
Metaphilosophy
Metaphilosophy, also known as the philosophy of philosophy, is the study of philosophy itself: its methods, aims, scope, and foundations, including debates over intuition and experimental philosophy.
Metaphone
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm published by Lawrence Philips in 1990 that codes English words by pronunciation, so similarly sounding words and names match despite different spellings; it replaced Soundex.
Metaphor
Metaphor: figurative use of words likening a tenor to a vehicle, from Aristotle's transfer account through Black's interaction theory and Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory to cognitive science and LLM research.
Metaphor analysis
Metaphor analysis is a method in linguistics and discourse studies for identifying metaphorical expressions in texts and inferring the conceptual structures behind them, using procedures such as MIP and MIPVU.
Metaphor: ReFantazio (メタファー: リファンタジオ)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (メタファー: リファンタジオ) is a 2024 fantasy RPG by Atlus' Studio Zero, directed by Katsura Hashino; Metascore 94, Best RPG at The Game Awards 2024, Switch 2 version due November 12, 2026.
Metaphycus helvolus
Metaphycus helvolus is a tiny encyrtid parasitoid wasp introduced to California from Africa in 1937; it parasitizes at least 22 soft scale species and is the main biological control agent of black scale on Southern California citrus.
Metaphyseal anadysplasia
Metaphyseal anadysplasia (MAD, MIM 602111/613073) is a rare regressive skeletal dysplasia from MMP13 or MMP9 variants: infantile metaphyseal irregularity, leg bowing, and short stature that spontaneously resolve in childhood.
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, Schmid type
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, Schmid type (SMCD, MCDS, OMIM 156500) is a rare autosomal dominant COL10A1 skeletal dysplasia causing short-limbed short stature, bowed legs, coxa vara, and waddling gait, distinguished from rickets by normal labs.
Metaphyseal chondromatosis with D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria
Metaphyseal chondromatosis with D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, also called MC-HGA, is an extremely rare genetic disorder combining enchondromatosis with D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, caused by somatic mosaic IDH1 mutations.
Metaphysical naturalism
Metaphysical naturalism, also called ontological, philosophical, or antisupernaturalist naturalism, is the worldview that nothing exists beyond the natural world studied by science. It rejects miracles, gods, and souls, and is distinct from methodological naturalism, a research method rather than an ontological claim.
Metaphysical painting
Metaphysical painting (Italian: Pittura metafisica) is an Italian style of the early twentieth century, founded by Giorgio de Chirico around 1910, that depicts enigmatic dreamlike scenes.
Metaphysical poets
The Metaphysical poets were 17th-century English poets led by John Donne, with Herbert, Marvell, Cowley, Crashaw, and Vaughan, known for conceits, argument, and paradox; named by Johnson, revived by Grierson and Eliot.
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the most general features of reality: what exists, and how categories such as substance, causation, and modality structure it.
Metaphysics (τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά) (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Metaphysics (τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά), also called first philosophy, is a fourteen-book treatise on being qua being, substance, potentiality and actuality, and the divine unmoved first cause; its Hellenistic title, not Aristotle's, gave metaphysics its name, and the work shaped Arabic and Latin medieval thought.
Metaplane
Metaplane is a data observability platform founded in 2019 by Kevin Hu, Guru Mahendran, and Peter Casinelli (YC Winter 2020), offering ML anomaly detection and column-level lineage; raised $22.2M and was acquired by Datadog in April 2025.
Metaplasia
Metaplasia is the conversion of one tissue type to another, typically in response to chronic injury. It is usually reversible, but metaplastic tissue can develop dysplasia and cancer.
Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast
Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast (metaplastic breast cancer, MpBC) is a rare, typically triple-negative invasive breast carcinoma with squamous, spindle, chondroid, or osseous metaplasia and worse survival than TNBC.
Metaprogramming
Metaprogramming is programming in which programs treat other programs, or themselves, as data, generating, analyzing, or transforming code; common forms include macros, reflection, and templates.
Metaproterenol
Metaproterenol, also known as orciprenaline, is a beta-adrenergic agonist bronchodilator used to treat bronchospasm in asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema, marketed from the 1960s as Alupent and later withdrawn from most markets.