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Definition of Metastasizes
1. metastasize [v] - See also: metastasize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastasizes
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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