metastatic

[ met-uh-stat-ik ]

adjective

1. Pathology. of, relating to, or resulting from metastasis, the transference of disease-producing organisms or malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces:

   These blood vessels supply the tumor with nutrients and facilitate its metastatic spread.

Other Words From

• met·a·stat·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of metastatic¹

First recorded in 1760–70; metasta(sis) ( def ) + -tic ( def )

Example Sentences

In the treatment studies, the researchers administered the nanoparticles to mice with metastatic tumor in their lungs.

From TechCrunch

Several types of malignancies, including melanoma, lung and breast cancer, have a particular penchant for spreading to the brain — between 10 and 30 percent of patients develop such metastases.

From Ozy

However, there are very few therapies available that are specifically engineered to address brain metastases.

From Ozy

Because of this, the efficacy of most current cancer therapies in treating brain metastasis is limited by poor brain penetrance.

From Ozy

Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2016, the Ohio chef went from one chemotherapy regimen to another in an effort to outrun the cancer that had spread from her breast to her bones, lungs and liver.

From Time

From there grew the idea that inflammation itself could be a facilitator of metastatic growth.

From The Daily Beast

After a struggle of a little less than seven weeks, my father—a lifelong nonsmoker—died of metastatic lung cancer.

From The Daily Beast

Together for 17 years, for 12 of those years, Nancy fought metastatic cancer.

From The Daily Beast

When they told us she had metastatic disease, she was well schooled in what to expect, and she expected two years.

From The Daily Beast

Nine years ago, he discovered he had metastatic colon cancer.

From The Daily Beast

A second form of metastatic arthritis is met with in strangles.

From Project Gutenberg

(ii) To evacuate pus from the anterior chamber following metastatic infection.

From Project Gutenberg

Infection by contiguous extension occurs and also metastatic involvement is met with occasionally.

From Project Gutenberg

However, metastatic inflammation of this joint is seldom observed except in cases of strangles.

From Project Gutenberg

At present we have in the wards of the hospital a patient with multiple metastatic carcinomas of the skin.

From Project Gutenberg