Metastasis
WordNet
noun
(1) The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
(2) The spreading of a disease to another part of the body
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Etymology
Late Latin, from the Greek μεταστασις ‘removal, change’, from μεθισταναι ‘remove, change’.
Noun
- 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.
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- 1963: Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her. — Thomas Pynchon, V.
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