metastasis
Meaning of metastasis
- the development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer.
an increased risk of metastasis
late 16th century (as a rhetorical term, meaning ‘rapid transition from one point to another’): from Greek, literally ‘removal or change’, from methistanai ‘to change’.
Information about metastasis
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Hyphenation of metastasis
metas-ta-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- metastasis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
metastasis synonyms
Meaning metabolism:
Translation of metastasis
- Spanish: metástasis
- French: métastase
- Italian: metàstasi, metastasi
- Portuguese: metástase
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