| Definitions | | metastasize |
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verb
- (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...
Etymology: From metastasis.
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