metastasis
metastases
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pluralof metastasis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Three weeks later, she learnt she actually had stage three cancer with limited metastases.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
A major validation of this approach came from a melanoma trial that delivered results few expected: a 49% reduction in cancer recurrence and a 62% reduction in deadly distant metastases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
"The vast majority of tumor mortality is still due to metastases, and it almost trumps us working in difficult-to-reach cancers, such as melanoma and pancreatic cancer."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
The researchers discovered that tumor EV-DNA is taken up by liver-resident immune cells called Kupffer cells, which are spurred by marks of damage in the EV-DNA to organize immune cell clusters that resist liver metastases.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Reinbach has found them in a case of lymphosarcoma with metastases in the bone-marrow.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
