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Webster 1913 Edition
Metastasis
Me-tas′ta-sis
,Noun.
pl.
Metastases
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. [L., transition, fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to place in another way; [GREEK] after + [GREEK] to place.]
1.
(Theol.)
A spiritual change, as during baptism.
2.
(Med.)
A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.
Dunglison.
4.
(Physiol.)
The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.
Webster 1828 Edition
Metastasis
METAS'TASIS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
metastasis
metastasis
See also: metástasis
English
Noun
metastasis (plural metastases)
- (medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
- 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
- Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
- 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
- (figuratively) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
- (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
the transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
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