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Definition of Metastasize
1. Verb. Spread throughout the body. "The cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved"
Definition of Metastasize
1. Verb. (medicine of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metastasize
1. [v -SIZED, -SIZING, -SIZES]
Medical Definition of Metastasize
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastasize
Literary usage of Metastasize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Before treating epithelioma of the lower lip a careful study should be made of
the lymphatic glands and the manner in which they metastasize. ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"They have also shown that cases not operated upon metastasize late while cases
operated upon even after a curettage may metastasize very early and ..."
3. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"Anyone treating epithelioma of the lower lip should make a careful study of the
lymphatic glands and the manner in which they metastasize. ..."
4. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"This grade is the least malignant, and does not often metastasize. The other
extreme is Grade 4, in which there are no "pearls," and in which metastasis is ..."
5. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum (1916)
"... in the interior of the bones, and, having eroded their way through the cortex
and spread outside into a large tumor, metastasize extensively elsewhere. ..."
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