metastasis

See also: metástasis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/

Noun

metastasis (countable and uncountable, plural metastases)

1. A change in nature, form, or quality.
2. (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.

3. (figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
4. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Derived terms

• antimetastasis
• genometastasis
• macrometastasis
• metastasectomy
• metastasized
• metastasizing
• metastatic
• micrometastasis
• multimetastasis
• oligometastasis

 

Translations

transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: metàstasi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉移／转移 (zh) (zhuǎnyí), 转移 (zh) (zhuǎnyí), 遠處轉移／远处转移, 远处转移 (yuǎnchù zhuǎnyí), 遠端轉移／远端转移, 远端转移 (yuǎnduān zhuǎnyí), (of a tumour) 腫瘤轉移／肿瘤转移, 肿瘤转移 (zhǒngliú zhuǎnyí), 轉移灶／转移灶 (zhuǎnyízào), 转移灶 (zhuǎnyízào), 轉移瘤／转移瘤 (zhuǎnyíliú), 转移瘤 (zhuǎnyíliú), (of a cancer) 癌轉移／癌转移, 癌转移 (áizhuǎnyí)

• Czech: metastáza f
• Danish: metastase
• Dutch: uitzaaiing (nl) f, metastase (nl) f
• Finnish: etäpesäke (fi), metastaasi (fi)
• French: métastase (fr) f
• German: Metastase (de) f
• Hebrew: גרורה
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: áttét
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: metastasi (it) f
• Japanese: 転移 (ja) (てんい, ten'i)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: riesums m, metastāze f
• Lithuanian: metastazė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metastase (no) m

  Nynorsk: metastase m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: przerzut (pl) m, metastaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: metástase (pt)
• Romanian: metastază (ro) f
• Russian: метаста́з (ru) m (metastáz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: метастаза f

  Roman: metastaza (sh) f

• Slovak: metastáza
• Spanish: metástasis (es)
• Swedish: metastas (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: metastaz (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: di căn

See also

• metastasis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Silva Rhetoricae