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metastasis

[ muh-tas-tuh-sis ]

noun

, plural me·tas·ta·ses [m, uh, -, tas, -t, uh, -seez].
  1. Pathology.
    1. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces.
    2. the condition produced by this.
  2. Rhetoric. a rapid transition, as from one subject to another.
  3. Physics. a change in position or orbit of an elementary particle.


metastasis

/ mɪˈtæstəsɪs; ˌmɛtəˈstætɪk /

noun

  1. pathol the spreading of a disease, esp cancer cells, from one part of the body to another
  2. a transformation or change, as in rhetoric, from one point to another
  3. a rare word for metabolism


metastasis

/ mə-tăstə-sĭs /

  1. A cancerous tumor formed by transmission of malignant cells from a primary cancer located elsewhere in the body.


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Derived Forms

  • metastatic, adjective
  • ˌmetaˈstatically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • met·a·stat·ic [met-, uh, -, stat, -ik], adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of metastasis1

First recorded in 1580–90, metastasis is from the Greek word metástasis “a changing”; meta-, stasis

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Word History and Origins

Origin of metastasis1

C16: via Latin from Greek: transition

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Example Sentences

The teams showed the combo suppresses tumor growth and metastasis.

Activating a collaborative innate-adaptive immune response to control metastasis.

Moreover, these TAMs start taking cancer around the body, enabling metastases to take hold.

Cancer spread to the lungs is one of the most common forms of metastasis in various cancers.

But under the circumstances, they seem unable to stop its inexorable metastasis.

Indeed, some 90 percent of cancer fatalities are the result of the metastasis rather than the primary tumor.

I have thought that its origin might be accounted for on the principle of metastasis of morbid material.

The gills have become shifted forward by a metastasis similar to that which brought the whole thoracic organs far forward in fish.

We note here an interpretation of the first metastasis in terms of functional adaptation.

In the same category of laminitis from metastasis may also be placed the laminitis occurring as a result of an overdose of aloes.

When metastasis takes place, as it occasionally does, the fungus is transmitted by the blood vessels, as in pyæmia.

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