noun · irregular · countable / uncountable · rare

metastasis

me·ta·sta·sis

metastasis · metastases

метастаз

Metastase

A change in nature, form, or qualityA change in nature, form, or quality.

UK/mɪˈtæstəsɪs/US/məˈtæstəsəs/

» He has metastases in his lung.

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Meaning

4 senses

(countable, uncountable)A change in nature, form, or quality.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer.
the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A sudden or rapid transition from one point, topic or argument to another, often to evade an uncomfortable subject or to redirect the discussion.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Metastase
метаста́зmetastáz

Examples

2 sentences

He has metastases in his lung.
Nylez · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem
Religion is like cancer; after metastasis there is no cure.
belkacem77 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on Tatoeba Report a problem

Translations

8 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

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

Deutsch

By meaning 1

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

Origin

Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from

Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”), and from its etymons Koine Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”) and Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “change; removal; (medicine) movement of disease, pain, etc., from one part of the body to another”), from μετᾰ- (metă-, prefix denoting change in condition or position) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂) + στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “condition, state; position”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)), modelled after μεθιστάναι (methistánai, “to change; to remove”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis.

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