"metastasis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metastasis.wav Forms: metastases [plural]
Etymology: Coined in 1829 by Joseph Récamier. From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|LL.|-}} Late Latin, {{uder|en|grc|μετάστασις||removal, change}} Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|metastases}} metastasis (countable and uncountable, plural metastases)
  1. A change in nature, form, or quality. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body): метастаз (metastaz) (Bashkir), metàstasi [feminine] (Catalan), 轉移 /转移 (zhuǎnyí) (Chinese Mandarin), 遠處轉移 /远处转移 (yuǎnchù zhuǎnyí) (Chinese Mandarin), 遠端轉移 /远端转移 (yuǎnduān zhuǎnyí) (Chinese Mandarin), 腫瘤轉移 /肿瘤转移 (of a tumour) (Chinese Mandarin), 轉移灶 /转移灶 (zhuǎnyízào) (Chinese Mandarin), 轉移瘤 /转移瘤 (zhuǎnyíliú) (Chinese Mandarin), 癌轉移 /癌转移 (áizhuǎnyí) (note: of a cancer) (Chinese Mandarin), metastáza [feminine] (Czech), metastase (Danish), uitzaaiing [feminine] (Dutch), metastase [feminine] (Dutch), metastazo (Esperanto), etäpesäke (Finnish), metastaasi (Finnish), métastase [feminine] (French), Metastase [feminine] (German), גרורה (Hebrew), áttét (Hungarian), metastasis [standard] (Indonesian), metastase [nonstandard] (Indonesian), metastasi [feminine] (Italian), 転移 (ten'i) (alt: てんい) (Japanese), метастаз (metastaz) (Kazakh), метастаз (metastaz) (Kyrgyz), riesums [masculine] (Latvian), metastāze [feminine] (Latvian), metastazė [feminine] (Lithuanian), metastaz [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), metastase [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), metastase [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), przerzut [masculine] (Polish), metastaza [feminine] (Polish), metástase (Portuguese), metastază [feminine] (Romanian), метаста́з (metastáz) [masculine] (Russian), метастаза [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), metastaza [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), metastáza (Slovak), metástasis (Spanish), metastas (Swedish), metastaz (Turkish), di căn (Vietnamese)
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  3. (figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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  4. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Rhetoric
    Sense id: en-metastasis-en-noun-0jcaVOai
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