metastasis
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- noun
- /məˈtæs.tə.sɪs/
- Specialized
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metástasis
- Despite treatment, the patient died of progressive metastasis to the lung 4 months later.
- distant metastasis
- node metastasis
- lymph node metastasis
Examples
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After radical surgery, locally progressive disease or distant metastasis are the main sites of recurrence.
Academic text (1995) -
To the best of our knowledge, no case of regional or distant metastasis has been documented.
Academic text (2005) -
We have to remove it now, or we risk metastasis.
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All patients who presented with regional metastasis died of disease during follow-up.
Academic text (2005) -
None of our patients developed a recurrence or metastasis following final treatment.
Academic text (2005) -
The cause of death is given as "cancer of right breast with metastasis to left breast/left hip/spine."
Fiction book (1997) -
The most common sites of metastasis are the lung, regional lymph nodes, liver, and bone.
Academic text (2001) -
Your lymph nodes are involved and your blood markers indicate evidence of distant metastasis.
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All of these orangish blobs here are metastases from a pancreatic cancer.
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The major cause of death from cancer is metastasis, the disease's spread within the body.
Compounds
- Specialized
The chance that cancer cells spread from their original place to other parts of the body
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word metastasis comes from Greek parts meta- 'change' and -stasis 'standing' or 'place', and you can see 'change' in metamorphosis and 'standing' in words like static. So a metastasis is literally a 'change of place', and in medicine it means a disease such as cancer moving or spreading to another part of the body.