metastasize meaning

Verb: metastasize  mu'tastu`sIz

1. Spread throughout the body
   "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved"
   - metastasise [Brit]

Derived forms: metastasized, metastasizes, metastasizing

See also: metastasis

Type of: distribute, spread

Encyclopedia: Metastasize

[Medicine]
also Brit me·tas·ta·sise vi -sized also Brit -sised; -siz·ing also Brit -sis·ing : to spread by metastasis ‹the lesion already had metastasized beyond the larynx before a diagnosis of carcinoma was made —Amer. Practitioner› — me·tas·ta·si·za·tion also Brit me·tas·ta·si·sa·tion n

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1. by 1945 that cancer had metastasized all through the fatherland.
2. non-morphological criteria of metastasizing potential are largely speculative.
3. carcinomas often metastasize via lymphatics
4. carcinomas often metastasize to lymphatics
5. the neoplasm with the greatest propensity to metastasize to heart is melanoma