Metamorphosis

The Student's Medical Dictionary · 1896 · p. 391

(metamor’ -fo -sis) [juera, acro ; /uoptyoeiv, to change]. A structural change, or transformation. In pathology, a degeneration. M., Fatty, fatty degeneration. M., Regre ive, M., Retrograde, a disintegrating change; a degeneration. M., Viscous, the agglutination of blood-plaques in the proce of thrombosis. Metanephros, 391