Category: M

  • Metamemory

    Memory, as knowing about knowing.  

  • Metacognitive knowledge

    Everything a person knows about cognizing: (a) knowledge about persons as cognizers, (b) knowledge about tasks and their demands, and (c) knowledge about strategies for accomplishing cognitive ends.  

  • Metacognitive experience

    Being or becoming aware or conscious of some metacognition.  

  • Metacognition

    Awareness of the knowledge one possesses and one’s ability to apply that knowledge.  

  • Metacercaria

    An encysted cercaria. If present in fluke life history, it is ingested passively by the final host. A mature form of the cercaria larva of a fluke. Liver fluke metacercariae are enveloped by thin cysts and develop on various kinds of vegetation. The encysted stage in the life of a trematode. This stage occurs in…

  • Metacarpus

    That part of the hand between the wrist and fingers. The five bones in the hand between the fingers and the wrist. Any of the five bones of the hand between the wrist (carpus) and the finger (phalanges); they are usually numbered I through V, starting on the thumb side. Bones of the palm of…

  • Metacarpal bones

    The bones between the wrist and fingers. The five long bones which occupy the hand between the carpal bones at the wrist and the phalanges of the fingers. The large rounded ‘knuckles’ at the root of the fingers are formed by the heads of these bones. A hand contains five elongated, cylindrical bones. These bones…

  • Metabolite, essential

    A substance whose presence in very low concentration must be supplied from an external source in order that the organism may carry out its functions or that a specific biochemical reaction may be allowed to proceed.  

  • Metabolic waste

    The unusable end products of anabolic and catabolic processes that are excreted from the body.  

  • Metabolic therapy

    An unorthodox program of treatment that may include megadoses of vitamins, oral enzymes, pangamic acid, coffee enemas, and a low-protein diet.