metastasis
noun/məˈtæstəsɪs/
/məˈtæstəsɪs/
[uncountable, countable] (plural metastases
(medical)/məˈtæstəsiːz/
/məˈtæstəsiːz/
)- the development of tumours in different parts of the body resulting from cancer that has started in another part of the body; one of these tumoursWord Originlate 16th cent. (as a rhetorical term, meaning ‘rapid transition from one point to another’): from Greek, literally ‘removal or change’, from methistanai ‘to change’.
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