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Definition of Metastatic tumor
1. Noun. A tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body.
Generic synonyms: Neoplasm, Tumor, Tumour, Malignance, Malignancy
Specialized synonyms: Carcinosarcoma, Cancer, Malignant Neoplastic Disease, Angiosarcoma, Myeloma, Neuroblastoma, Neuroepithelioma, Retinoblastoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metastatic Tumor
Literary usage of Metastatic tumor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Management of Cancer Pain: Clinical Practice Guidelines by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Surgical Management of Pain Due To Primary or metastatic tumor Pain control is
usually a secondary goal when curative tumor excision is performed. ..."
2. A Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology: With an Introductory by Francis Delafield, Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1892)
"This metastatic tumor was secondary to a large epithelioma of the back of the
... 135 shows a section from a metastatic tumor of the axillary lymph node in ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"... those in which the initial manifestation of the disease is a metastatic tumor
in the bone or other viscera. So frequently do these metastatic tumors ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"... the liver becoming of enormous size, the patient dying of metastatic tumor of
the brain three and one-half years after the exenteration. ..."
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