Definition of Metastasize

1. Verb. Spread throughout the body. "The cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved"

Exact synonyms: Metastasise
Generic synonyms: Distribute, Spread
Derivative terms: Metastasis

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

1. To spread to another part of the body, usually through the blood vessels, lymph channels or spinal fluid. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastasize

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

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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