The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metastatic \Met`a*stat"ic\, a. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth; a metastatic tumor.
Wiktionary
a. (context medicine English) Relating to metastasis.
WordNet
adj. relating to or affected by metastasis; "metastatic growth"
Usage examples of "metastatic".
Her vertebrae are beginning to crumble because of metastatic breast disease.
In a few instances, there seemed to be significant shrinkage of metastatic melanoma and kidney cancer.
A threshold of public tolerance has been breached: Metastatic growth is no longer seen as necessary for prosperity.
Stanford University psychiatrists divided eighty-six women with metastatic breast cancer into two groups - one in which they were encouraged to examine their fears of dying and to take charge of their lives, and the other given no special psychiatric support.
There were gross secondary metastatic tumors in the kidneys, liver, and brain.
As Anna faced her future in 1994, she knew that, unless medical science produced a miraculous cure, metastatic breast cancer was considered unsurvivable.
The first thing that Nancy said was that metastatic breast cancer is not considered a curable disease.
It looks like some women with metastatic cancer may actually be living longer, with some quality of life.
He looks surprisingly fit for a fifty-six-year-old man with metastatic carcinoma.
The slightest tick of the needle could trigger your instint and even before the actual data emerged from the machine the knowledge was there in your medulla, as sweet as the moment you plunged into a woman or as terrible as the ache of metastatic cancer in your belly.
Stanford University psychiatrists divided eighty-six women with metastatic breast cancer into two groups - one in which they were encouraged to examine their fears of dying and to take charge of their lives, and the other given no special psychiatric support.
Seemed intuitively to sense that it was a matter not of reduction at all, but perversely of expansion, the aleatory flutter of uncontrolled, metastatic growth each well-shot ball admitting of n possible responses, n2 possible responses to those responses, and on into what Incandenza would articulate to anyone who shared both his backgrounds as a Cantorian35 continuum of infinities of possible move and response, Cantorian and beautiful because wfoliating, contained, this diagnate infinity of infinities of choice and execution, mathematically uncontrolled but humanly contained, bounded by the talent and imagination of self and opponent, bent in on itself by the containing boundaries of skill and imagination that brought one player finally down, that kept both from winning, that made it, finally, a game, these boundaries of self.
When the study was complete David was shocked that there was no sign of a metastatic tumor.
It's a form of cancer called osteogenic sarcoma and it's metastatic.