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UK
/mˌɛtəstˈæsiz/
]
[ US /məˈtæstəsɪs/ ]
[ US /məˈtæstəsɪs/ ]
NOUN
- the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body
How To Use metastasis In A Sentence
- The modes of tumor metastasis have lymphatic metastasis, hematogenous metastasis and implantation metastasis.
- The incidence of cavitation in pulmonary lung metastasis is approximately 4%.
- To explore mechanism of tumor invasion and metastasis and blockage target.
- MRI also suggested hepatic metastasis in 4 cases, portal vein invasion in 7 cases.
- The sudden onset of myelopathy secondary to spinal metastasis is a true neurologic emergency.
- I thought also that he should have defined such terms as autosome, metastasis, meiosis, and maybe even facultative as it is used in biology. Evolution for Everyone: A Review - The Panda's Thumb
- A malignant neoplasm in the neck can arise as a primary tumor or as metastasis from the upper aerodigestive tract or a distant site.
- - Design and execute in vivo animal xenograft tumor models, such as subcutaneous, orthotopic, metastasis. Naturejobs - All Jobs
- They are growing slowly with a propensity for local recurrence and metastasis.
- This becomes especially important when there is limited biopsy material from a distant metastasis that shows a small cell carcinoma and a colonic biopsy specimen that reveals a villous adenoma.