Usually means: Changes color in response to chemicals.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. metachromatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. metachromatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metachromatic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metachromatic: Wordnik
  5. metachromatic: Wiktionary
  6. metachromatic: Dictionary.com
  7. Metachromatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. metachromatic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. metachromatic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. metachromatic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. metachromatic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metachromatic)

▸ adjective:  Exhibiting, or pertaining to, metachromasia.

Similar:
photochromatic, metachrotic, chromatophoric, chromophoric, stenochromic, halochromic, chromometric, electrochromic, metachemical, chromogenetic, more...

Opposite:
achromatic, monochromatic, uniform

Phrases:
metachromatic leukodystrophy, metachromatic granules, metachromatic stain, leukodystrophy metachromatic, leukodystrophy, metachromatic, more...

Adjectives:
late, infantile, characteristic, less, general

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Similar:
photochromatic, metachrotic, chromatophoric, chromophoric, stenochromic, halochromic, chromometric, electrochromic, metachemical, chromogenetic, more...

Opposite:
achromatic, monochromatic, uniform

Phrases:
metachromatic leukodystrophy, metachromatic granules, metachromatic stain, leukodystrophy metachromatic, leukodystrophy, metachromatic, metachromatic bodies, metachromatic granule, metachromatic g's, more...

Adjectives:
late, infantile, characteristic, less, general



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