English
Etymology
From metastasis.
Pronunciation
IPA: /mɪ'tæst�s�ɪz/
Verb
metastasize
- medicine of a disease or tumour, to spread to other sites in the body, to undergo metastasis
#:*1989: On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes. � Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
#:*2001: �Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.� � David Lodge, Thinks...
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