metastasis

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) A change in nature, form, or quality.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The spread of something harmful to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
4. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Concepts

métastase

tumeur maligne secondaire

métastases

Synonymes

change

metastases

transference

disease site transfer

metastasy

cancer

♋

metastatic tumor

Traductions

metastasi

metástasis

Metastase

uitzaaiing

metastaz

metástase

metàstasi

metastase

değişme

μετάσταση

Übergang

metàstasi

metastasis

metastasering

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɪˈtæstəsɪs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Coined in 1829 by Joseph Récamier. From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis.