Crossword clues for metastasis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metastasis \Me*tas"ta*sis\, n.; pl. Metastases. [L., transition, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to place in another way; ? after + ? to place.]
(Theol.) A spiritual change, as during baptism.
(Med.) A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.
--Dunglison.Especially: The migration of cancerous or malignant cells from the site of their origin to other parts of the body. Such cells may migrate to multiple new locations, making therapy more difficult and often leading to death.
(Physiol.) The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, originally in rhetoric, from Late Latin metastasis "transition," from Greek metastasis "a removing, removal; migration; a changing; change, revolution," from methistanai "to remove, change," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). A rhetorical term in Late Latin for "a sudden transition in subjects," medical use for "shift of disease from one part of the body to another" dates from 1660s in English. Related: Metastatic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) 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. 2 (context metaphor English) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer. 3 (context rhetoric English) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
WordNet
n. the spreading of a disease to another part of the body
the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life [syn: metabolism, metabolic process]
[also: metastases (pl)]
Wikipedia
Metástasis (meaning " metastasis" in Spanish) is an American, Spanish-language version of the U.S. crime drama Breaking Bad. It tells the story of Walter Blanco ( Walter White).
Usage examples of "metastasis".
Autenreith mentions metastasis of milk through an abdominal abscess to the thigh, and Balthazaar also mentions excretion of milk from the thigh.
I may venture to assert, though with all the inevitable reserves, of course, that it is not malignant, and that we are in the presence not of the tumour you mentioned, still less of a metastasis - God between us and evil - but of a splanchnic teratoma.
Probably the most interesting of all these anomalies is the class in which, by a compensatory process, metastasis of the secretions is noticed.
Gardane speaks of metastasis to the lungs, and there is another case on record in which this phenomenon caused asphyxia.
Jaeger in 1770 at Tubingen describes the metastasis of milk to the umbilicus, Haen to the back, and Schurig to a wound in the foot.
I told him that I was on the standard treatment protocol for testicular cancer with lung metastasis, BEP.
Soon, the metastasis would be complete, and the First would go to the Gorgon Mount and take hold of that cancerous heart.
Macy received from him a sweet sad embarrassed smile, the kind one gives a man who has had a couple of limbs or perhaps his genitals amputated to check the metastasis of some new lightning cancer.
Because of the metastasis it would have to be radical, and there would always be a danger that it would actually make the cancer spread faster.
Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
German was the language of her memories, those that had come back like a metastasis, overwhelming her.
Cosmotron set up their Metastasis Energy Plant they threatened, blackmailed, bribed and finally were permitted to buy Jekyll Island on the Georgia coast.
In case of metastasis to any other organ or part of a carcass, or if metastasis has not occurred, but there are present secondary changes in the muscles .
If there are no other metastases, then clearly her chances will be better.
Each of those spots is a small metastasis that's being burned away, even as we speak.