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Metastatic

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Adjective

1. metastatic

relating to or affected by metastasis

Example Sentences:
'metastatic growth'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Metastatic

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noun plural -ses (-ˌsiːz)
1. pathology
the spreading of a disease, esp cancer cells, from one part of the body to another
2. 
a transformation or change, as in rhetoric, from one point to another
3.  a rare word for metabolism

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Metastatic

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nounWord forms: plural meˈtastaˌses (məˈtæstəˌsiz ; mətasˈtəsēzˌ)
1.  Rare
change of form or matter; transformation
2.  Medicine
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 College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Metastatic

see synonyms of metastatic
n. pl. me·tas·ta·ses (-sēz′)
Medicine
1. Transmission of pathogenic microorganisms or cancerous cells from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body, usually by way of the blood vessels or lymphatics.
2. A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body.

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