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metastasis
/məˈtæstəsəs/
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What does metastasis mean?
noun
- A change in nature, form, or quality.
- (figuratively) The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer.
- A sudden or rapid transition from one point, topic or argument to another, often to evade an uncomfortable subject or to redirect the discussion.
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noun
- 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.
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Medical science has applied the term metastasis to such spreading and reappearing of malignant tumors after extirpation.
Autenreith mentions metastasis of milk through an abdominal abscess to the thigh, and Balthazaar also mentions excretion of milk from the thigh.
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In the same category of laminitis from metastasis may also be placed the laminitis occurring as a result of an overdose of aloes.