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Definition of Metastasis

1. Noun. The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body.

Definition of Metastasis

1. n. A spiritual change, as during baptism.

Definition of Metastasis

1. Noun. (medicine) 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. ¹

2. Noun. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metastasis

1. [n -STASES]

Medical Definition of Metastasis

1. 1. The transfer of disease from one organ or part to another not directly connected with it. It may be due either to the transfer of pathogenic microorganisms (for example, tubercle bacilli) or to transfer of cells, as in malignant tumours. The capacity to metastasize is a characteristic of all malignant tumours. 2. Pleural: metastases. A growth of pathogenic microorganisms or of abnormal cells distant from the site primarily involved by the morbid process. Origin: Gr. Stasis = stand, stoppage (12 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastasis

Literary usage of Metastasis

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

1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Assimilation and Metastasis (Stoffwechsel)l. The food-materials absorbed by the plant are, with a few exceptions, compounds of oxygen containing the highest ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"carcinoma may develop in the ovary, double colloid cancer of both ovaries is rare, though it is quite common as a metastasis of gastric or intestinal cancer ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Probably better results may be obtained from treating the larger type of growth prior to the occurrence of metastasis which takes place late in such cases. ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"... Ophthalmia from Metastasis. Saint-Yves appears to have been the first to speak of ... ophthalmia from metastasis. His account of it is very short. ..."

5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1857)
"Metastasis to the brain in acute rheumatism runs a rapid course,and proves ... In almost all the recorded instances of rheumatic metastasis to the brain ..."

6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"All the action of light on the phenomena of vegetable life, not merely on growth and metastasis, but also the so-called mechanical and vital movements of ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Patients with metastasis without pain—ig, or 24.1 per rent of 79 Patients without ... Patients without metastasis without pain—186, or 65.7 per cent of ..."

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