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METASTASIS
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Irregular inflected form: metastases
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("metastasis" is a kind of...):
pathologic process; pathological process (an organic process occurring as a consequence of disease)
Derivation:
metastasize (spread throughout the body)
metastatic (relating to or affected by metastasis)
Context examples:
When all metastases are removed, it is called a complete metastasectomy.
(Metastasectomy, NCI Dictionary)
It also plays a putative role in tumor metastasis.
(AGR2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Metastases occur in approximately twenty percent of the cases.
(Adult Type Testicular Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
Lactate is one of the fuels that supports growth, proliferation, and maybe even lung cancer metastases.
(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A required early step in cancer growth and metastasis.
(Angiogenic Switch, NCI Thesaurus)
The plural form of metastasis is metastases (meh-TAS-tuh-SEEZ).
(Metastasis, NCI Dictionary)
Many types of biological processes involve nanoscale interactions across large systems, such as cancer metastasis and immunological responses.
(Bigger is better for brain tissue understanding, NSF)
However, tumor growth and metastasis occurs amid complex, evolving, and diverse genetic changes.
(Novel Approach Gives Insights Into Tumor Development, NIH)
Inhibiting the oxygen-sensing capability of immune cells, either genetically or pharmacologically, prevented lung metastasis.
(Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice, NIH)
They analyzed sequence data from 325 patients with a variety of cancers, including breast, prostate, bladder, and lung, as well as individual patients with metastases.
(Researchers uncover role of repetitive DNA and protein sequences in tumor evolution, National Institutes of Health)
