metastasis
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See also: metástasis
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined in 1829 by Joseph Récamier. From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun[edit]
metastasis (countable and uncountable, plural metastases)
- A change in nature, form, or quality.
- (medicine) 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.
- 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
- 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.
- (figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
- (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
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See also[edit]
- metastasis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”). Doublet of metastase.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mètastasis
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Further reading[edit]
- “metastasis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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