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Definition of metastasis noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

metastasis

noun
 
/məˈtæstəsɪs/
 
/məˈtæstəsɪs/
[uncountable, countable]
(plural metastases
 
/məˈtæstəsiːz/
 
/məˈtæstəsiːz/
)
(medical)
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  1. the development of tumours in different parts of the body resulting from cancer that has started in another part of the body; one of these tumours
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a rhetorical term, meaning ‘rapid transition from one point to another’): from Greek, literally ‘removal or change’, from methistanai ‘to change’.
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