metastasize
pronunciation
How to pronounce metastasize in British English:
UK [mɪ'tæstəsaɪz]
How to pronounce metastasize in American English:
US [mə'tæstəˌsaɪz]
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- Verb:
- spread throughout the body
Word Origin
- metastasize
- 1826, from metastasis + -ize. Related: Metastasized; metastasizing.
Example
- 1. Thus , glass-steagall and narrow banking treat only a part of our financial tumour , leaving the rest to metastasize .
- 2. The actual target was breast cancer stem cells , the cells from which cancers grow and metastasize , and which tend to resist drug and radiation treatments .
- 3. Cells that break away from a cancerous tumor and circulate in the bloodstream are a serious threat to helping cancer spread , or metastasize , throughout the body .
- 4. One of those strategies is screening to detect cancer at sufficiently early stages , and to treat or remove screen-detected cancers before they metastasize and spread to other organs .