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Definition of Metastases

1. metastasis [n] - See also: metastasis

Medical Definition of Metastases

1. Cancer that started from cancer cells from another part of the body. For example: cancer that starts in the breast can spread to the lymph nodes and then be spread throughout the body. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastases

Literary usage of Metastases

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

1. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The metastases were most frequently in the lymph-glands, next in the serous membranes; of the other organs, the liver showed the most frequent metastases ..."

2. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"Cancerous metastases.—Secondary cancerous deposits in other organs are of frequent occurrence ... This writer gives the following figures for the metastases ..."

3. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"On the right auricle and on the right upper eyelid typical epitheliomas existed as separate tumours. Jso metastases developed. CASE 2. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"In the first place it is practically important that not all enlarged glands in the neighborhood of tumors are the seat of metastases. ..."

5. Cellular pathology: As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Franklin N. Chance (1860)
"Import of prolonged thrombi.—Pulmonary metastases.—Crumbling away of the emboli.—Varying character of the metastases.—Endocarditis and capillary embolia. ..."

6. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"metastases of malignant thyroid tumors show a marked predilection first of all for ... Recklinghausen, trying to explain the reason why bony metastases of ..."

7. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"The metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid gland contain not ... Gierke reports two cases of carcinoma of the thyroid with metastases in the vertebral ..."

8. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"The frequency of the involvement of the lungs observed in cases of metastases of carcinoma of the brain is taken by some authors to indicate the importance ..."

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