metastasis

metastasis

See also: metástasis

English

Etymology

Coined in 1829 by Joseph Récamier. From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/

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Noun

metastasis (countable and uncountable, plural metastases)

1. A change in nature, form, or quality.
2. (medicine) 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.
   • 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.

     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.

3. (figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
4. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Derived terms

• antimetastasis
• genometastasis
• macrometastasis
• metastasectomy
• metastasized
• metastasizing
• metastatic
• micrometastasis
• multimetastasis
• oligometastasis
• polymetastasis

 

Translations

transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: метастаз (metastaz) Catalan: metàstasi f Chinese: Mandarin: 轉移／转移 (zh) (zhuǎnyí), 遠處轉移／远处转移 (yuǎnchù zhuǎnyí), 遠端轉移／远端转移 (yuǎnduān zhuǎnyí), (of a tumour) 腫瘤轉移／肿瘤转移 (zhǒngliú zhuǎnyí), 轉移灶／转移灶 (zhuǎnyízào), 轉移瘤／转移瘤 (zhuǎnyíliú), (of a cancer) 癌轉移／癌转移 (áizhuǎnyí) Czech: metastáza (cs) f Danish: metastase Dutch: uitzaaiing (nl) f, metastase (nl) f Esperanto: metastazo (eo) Finnish: etäpesäke (fi), metastaasi (fi) French: métastase (fr) f German: Metastase (de) f Hebrew: גרורה‎ Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: áttét (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: metastasis (id) (standard), metastase (nonstandard) Italian: metastasi (it) f Japanese: 転移 (ja) (てんい, ten'i) Kazakh: метастаз (metastaz) Korean: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: metastaz (ku) f Kyrgyz: метастаз (metastaz) Latvian: riesums m, metastāze f Lithuanian: metastazė f Norwegian: Bokmål: metastase (no) m Nynorsk: metastase m Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: przerzut (pl) m, metastaza (pl) f Portuguese: metástase (pt) Romanian: metastază (ro) f Russian: метаста́з (ru) m (metastáz) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: метастаза f Roman: metastaza (sh) f Slovak: metastáza Spanish: metástasis (es) Swedish: metastas (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: metastaz (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: di căn (vi)

See also

• metastasis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”). Doublet of metastase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛtaˈstasis]
• Hyphenation: mè‧ta‧sta‧sis

Noun

mètastasis

1. metastasis:
   1. (chemistry) a change in nature, form, or quality.
   2. (medicine, oncology) 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.

Alternative forms

• metastase

Further reading

• “metastasis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.