metastasize

English

Alternative forms

• metastasise

Etymology

From metastasis +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈtæstəsʌɪz/

Verb

1. (medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
   • 1989, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

     On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.

   • 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...:

     ‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’

Translations

to spread to other sites in the body

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: metastatitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉移／转移 (zh) (zhuǎnyí)

• Dutch: metastaseren, uitzaaien (nl)
• Finnish: metastasoida (fi), metastasoitua
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• French: métastaser (fr)
• German: metastasieren
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: metastatizar (es)
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• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can