Metastasis Definition
mĭ-tăstə-sĭs
metastases
noun
Change of form or matter; transformation.
Webster's New World
The spread of disease from one part of the body to another unrelated to it, as in the transfer of the cells of a malignant tumor by way of the bloodstream or lymphatics.
Webster's New World
A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body.
American Heritage Medicine
(rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
Wiktionary
Origin of Metastasis
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Greek from methistanai to change meta- meta- histanai to cause to stand, place stā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metastasis, “removal, change"), from μεθίστημι (methistemi, “to remove, to change")
From Wiktionary
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