Associations to the word «Metastasis»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

METASTASIS, noun. The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body.

Wise words

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