metastasis
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/
metastasis
- A change in nature, form, or quality.
- (medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
- 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
- Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
- 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
- (metaphor) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
- (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
- French: métastase
- German: Metastase
- Italian: metastasi
- Portuguese: metástase
- Russian: метаста́з
- Spanish: metástasis
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