metastasis

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

change

metastases

transference

disease site transfer

metastasy

cancer

♋

metastatic tumor

Translations

metastasi

métastase

metástasis

Metastase

uitzaaiing

metastaz

metástase

metàstasi

metastase

değişme

métastases

Umwandlung

tumeur maligne secondaire

Übertragung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪˈtæstəsɪs/

Etymology

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.