METASTASIS (metastases)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: metastases   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does metastasis mean? 

• METASTASIS (noun)
  The noun METASTASIS has 1 sense:

1. the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

  Familiarity information: METASTASIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METASTASIS (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 

EGFR, a receptor tyrosine kinase overexpressed in a variety of cancer cell types, is a key regulator of cancer cell proliferation, apoptosis, invasion, and metastasis.

(Anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibody Mixture MM-151, NCI Thesaurus)

This non-coding RNA may play a role in cancer and metastasis.

(Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Proteins involved in the inhibition of tumor cell metastasis.

(Metastasis Suppressor Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The frequency of distal metastases is low.

(Ameloblastic Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical finding about one or more characteristics of ampulla of Vater cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases.

(Ampulla of Vater Cancer Clinical Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

Most metastases from occult primary tumors are found in the head and neck.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm of Unknown Primary Origin, NCI Dictionary)

The clinical course is aggressive, with local recurrences and distant metastases.

(Adult Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Metastases have been reported in a minority of patients.

(Adult Type Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

This may result in the inhibition of tumor growth and/or metastasis.

(ALVAC-CEA vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common sites of metastasis are bone, lung, and head and neck.

(Metastasizing Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Salivary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)