Metastasis

Word METASTASIS
Character 10
Hyphenation me tas ta sis
Pronunciations /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/

Definitions and meanings of "Metastasis"

What do we mean by metastasis?

Transmission of pathogenic microorganisms or cancerous cells from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body, usually by way of the blood vessels or lymphatics. noun

A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body. noun

Change of substance; conversion of one substance into another. noun

In pathology, the production of local disease in some part of the body from a focus of more or less similar disease in some other part not immediately adjacent. noun

In botany, metabolism. noun

In petrography, a change within a rock or mineral in the nature of recrystallization or molecular rearrangement, without the addition or subtraction of material: as the crystallization of a limestone, or the devitrification of glass. noun

A spiritual change, as during baptism. noun

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another. noun

The migration of cancerous or malignant cells from the site of their origin to other parts of the body. Such cells may migrate to multiple new locations, making therapy more difficult and often leading to death. noun

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. noun

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. noun

Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them. noun

The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body noun

A change in nature, form, or quality.

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.

The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.

Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Metastasis

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The word "metastasis" in example sentences

Medical science has applied the term metastasis to such spreading and reappearing of malignant tumors after extirpation. ❋ Henry Lindlahr (1893)

The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis—“beyond stillness” in Latin—an unmoored, partially unstable state that captures the peculiar instability of modernity. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

This process is called metastasis, which means that the cancer has spread. ❋ Dede Bonner (2008)

If chemotherapy kills 99 percent of the cancer cells in a woman's body, this prophylactic treatment will reduce the metastasis from a million cells to 10,000. ❋ Unknown (1996)

From an intellectual point of view, metastasis is an amazing phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Could it be that Schmidt doesn’t believe in the dominant corporate principle of our time — what I call the metastasis model of growth — that unceasing, imperial expansion is the only metric of success? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Researchers from the University of East Anglia said their findings could lead within a decade to the development of new medicines to halt a critical late stage of the disease known as metastasis, when cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. ❋ Meghan Neal (2011)

This is the most deadly aspect of cancer, called metastasis. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

Eventually some of these cancerous cells slip into the bloodstream and are carried to distant organs of the body such as the liver, brain, or bone, a process known as metastasis. ❋ KELLY TRAVER (2009)

Doctors have been really frustrated by the fact that they have a pretty good sense of who is going to develop metastasis, that is spread of the disease. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Alpharadin is from a class of drugs called alpha-pharmaceuticals which work by sending tiny, charged, targeted doses of damaging radiation to a secondary tumour -- known as a metastasis -- in the bone. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A single cancerous cell in that jelly coating could attach to any organ and divide to form a secondary tumor, called a metastasis. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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