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Definition of Metastatic
1. Adjective. Relating to or affected by metastasis. "Metastatic growth"
Definition of Metastatic
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
Definition of Metastatic
1. Adjective. (medicine) Relating to metastasis. ¹
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Definition of Metastatic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Metastatic
1. Spread of a disease from the organ or tissue of origin to another part of the body. (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastatic
Literary usage of Metastatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"metastatic colloid goiter, histologically, does not differ in any way from a ...
In the metastatic as well as in the primary tumor we find follicles of ..."
2. Typhoid Fever Considered as a Problem of Scientific Medicine by Frederick Parker Gay (1918)
"metastatic Foci of Typhoid Bacilli.—Typhoid bacilli that have entered the
circulating blood from the original foci in lymph nodes are then spread in a ..."
3. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"In metastatic choroiditis the retina may not detach, but remain glued to the
thickened choroid. Exudation from the ciliary body, especially after injury, ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"[We know hut little of the phenomenon called metastatic after-pains. ... In order
to give a correct idea of the so-called metastatic pains, we shall present ..."
5. Brain Abscess: Its Surgical Pathology and Operative Technic by Wells Phillips Eagleton (1922)
"All possess the two characteristics of metastatic abscess—the situation away from
the site of ... metastatic brain abscesses are frequently secondary to ..."
6. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1909)
"metastatic carcinoma of the choroid, with extension through the sclera to the orbit,
... Since the report by Perl,1 in 1872, of the first case of metastatic ..."
7. Medical Ophthalmology by Arnold Herman Knapp (1918)
"The cause for these metastatic pyogenic eye diseases are puerperal, ... The ocular
diseases are clinically divided into metastatic ophthalmia and septic ..."
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