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 (lv) 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

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.