metastasise meaning

Verb: metastasise
Usage: Brit (=metastasize)

1. Spread throughout the body
   "the cancer had metastasised and the patient could not be saved"
   - metastasize

Derived forms: metastasised, metastasises, metastasising

Type of: distribute, spread

Encyclopedia: Metastasise

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1. By March, his cancer had metastasised to his liver.
2. Involvement of the lymph nodes indicates the cancer has begun to metastasise or spread.
3. She died in West Sussex, Britain from the metastasised cancer, aged 66.
4. She died of breast cancer metastasised to her bones and liver two years later.
5. In a phase 1 clinical trial, 41 patients with advanced cancer metastasised to liver were KSP ).