metastasis
pronunciation
How to pronounce metastasis in British English:
UK [məˈtæstəsɪs]
How to pronounce metastasis in American English:
US [məˈtæstəsɪs]
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- Noun:
- the spreading of a disease to another part of the body
- the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
Word Origin
- metastasis (n.)
- 1570s, originally in rhetoric, from Late Latin metastasis "transition," from Greek metastasis "a removing, removal; migration; a changing; change, revolution," from methistanai "to remove, change," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). A rhetorical term in Late Latin for "a sudden transition in subjects," medical use for "shift of disease from one part of the body to another" dates from 1660s in English. Related: Metastatic.
Example
- 1. That would be one benign sort of metastasis .
- 2. The research could lead to new therapies for preventing cancer metastasis .
- 3. Aspirin taken over long periods reduced the spread of cancer through metastasis by around 50 % .
- 4. Since then , hyaluronan has been shown to be a significant player in heart development and tumor metastasis .
- 5. They injected the plasmid into a mouse melanoma metastasis model and used single photon emission computed tomography ( spect ) to visualize the reporter gene expression in tumor micro-metastases .