fine art. n. 1. (Art Terms) art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art. 2. (Art Terms) Also called: beaux arts (often plural) any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving.
Metaphase is the second stage of cell division. At the metaphase plate, sister chromatids are attached to the bundle of four to eight spindle fibers.
Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body, yet is typically spoken of as such spread by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases (mets). Cancer occurs after cells are genetically altered to proliferate rapidly and indefinitely.