metastatic meaning

Adjective: metastatic  `metu'statik

1. Relating to or affected by metastasis
   "metastatic growth"

See also: metastasis

Encyclopedia: Metastatic

[Medicine]
adj
1 : of, relating to, or caused by metastasis ‹cutaneous metastatic disease as the first sign of lung cancer›
2 : tending to metastasize ‹metastatic, or spreading, breast cancer —N.Y. Times› ‹determine what makes some cancer cells more metastatic than others —J. L. Marx› — met·a·stat·i·cal·ly adv

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1. both lungs will have innumerable metastatic foci and lymphangitic involvement.
2. the chance for palliation and long-term survival is greater with metastatic breast carcinoma than with any other late malignant disease.
3. no more metastatic sites could be found elsewhere
4. it turned out to be metastatic renal cell carcinoma
5. these tan-white nodules are characteristic for metastatic carcinoma