to metastasize
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8.6
- verb
- /mɪˈtæstəˌsaɪz/
- Specialized
:
hacer metástasis
- After several months of treatment, they learned that his cancer had metastasized to his liver.
- cancer metastasizes
- tumors metastasize
- metastasize to the parotid
But if they then become, if they spread, metastasize, they're deadly.
- But if they then become, if they spread, metastasize, they're deadly.
- It hadn't spread out of their organs, but and it had not metastasized, which is just amazing.
- Another pancreas related story with the same bottom line perhaps was my mother had breast cancer that had metastasized to her pancreas.
- A malignant cancer is one that is has metastasized.
- And if you get toe cancer metastasizes into the shed goes up to neck cancer, head cancer.
Examples
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But just this January, we discovered that the cancer had metastasized, that it had spread to my brain and to my lungs.
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I'm removing a metastasized testicular growth.
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It's metastasized to his brain.
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- It's metastasized in my bones.
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Thus, by the time lung cancer is diagnosed, it has often metastasized elsewhere in the body.
Academic text (1997) -
Cancers become almost incurable once they metastasize, and cancer is incredibly complex.
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What he died of was cancer: colon cancer metastasized to the liver.
Academic text (1995) -
Among tumors, carcinomas tend to metastasize to bone more frequently than sarcomas.
Academic text (2006) -
We report a new case, which occurred in a 48-year-old woman whose disease had metastasized to regional lymph nodes.
Academic text (2003) -
In this article, we describe a case of cutaneous leiomyosarcoma of the face that metastasized to the lung.
Academic text (2001)
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
metastasize = metastasis (semi-transparent) = metastasis + ize
The verb is formed regularly from the medical noun 'metastasis' with '-ize', but the meaning is specialized and not readily inferable for most learners.
Etymology
Metastasize comes from the Greek parts meta- meaning 'beyond' or 'change' and -stasis meaning 'standing' or 'placement', the same idea in the word static. So, it literally means 'change place', which helps: when cancer metastasizes it 'moves' or spreads from the first spot to other parts of the body.