Definition of Metastasizes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of metastasize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metastasizes

1. metastasize [v] - See also: metastasize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastasizes

metastannates
metastannic
metastannic acid
metastasectomies
metastasectomy
metastases
metastases to the liver
metastasic
metastasis
metastasise
metastasised
metastasises
metastasising
metastasize
metastasized
metastasizes (current term)
metastasizing
metastasizing septicaemia
metastastic
metastate
metastates
metastatic
metastatic abscess
metastatic brain tumour
metastatic breast cancer
metastatic calcification
metastatic cancer
metastatic cancer to the lung
metastatic carcinoid syndrome
metastatic carcinoma

Literary usage of Metastasizes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Our records are too imperfect to determine how frequently prostatic carcinoma metastasizes to the pelvis, lumbar spine, lungs, long bones, glands, etc. ..."

2. A Manual of surgery for students and physicians by Francis T. Stewart (1921)
"same region at the same time; it rarely breaks down or ulcerates through the skin, although it infiltrates environing structures; it metastasizes by the ..."

3. General Pathology: An Introduction to the Study of Medicine, Being a by Horst Oertel (1921)
"Moreover, the lymphosarcoma grows and metastasizes, frequently by the lymph ... One form is solitary, grows rapidly, infiltrates and metastasizes by lymph ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"... a very favorable disease, in that it gives early warning, grows slowly, metastasizes late, and occurs in a group of organs which are easily removed. ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1905)
"... the seat of a new growth which often erodes through the cortex and pushes aside neighboring tissues, but which never metastasizes into other organs. ..."

6. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"The suprascapular area more frequently metastasizes. Each should receive a full dose on the affected side, while on the opposite side the subscapular area ..."

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