A change in nature, form, or quality.
Used in a Sentence
metastases
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for metastases.
Editorial note
Don't cancer metastases have more to do with cancer mutations allowing the cancer cells to form new tumors?
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Quick take
A change in nature, form, or quality.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of metastases gathered in one view.
(figurative) The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer.
(medicine, oncology) 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.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for metastases.
noun
A change in nature, form, or quality.
noun
(figurative) The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer.
noun
(medicine, oncology) 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.
noun
(rhetoric) A sudden or rapid transition from one point, topic or argument to another, often to evade an uncomfortable subject or to redirect the discussion.
Example sentences
Don't cancer metastases have more to do with cancer mutations allowing the cancer cells to form new tumors?
So it’s very easy to end up in a situation where the disfunction metastases up into the parent.
This can be almost anywhere, and it can be very difficult to detect early metastases in a patient.
Wherever one dies 'with it' or 'because of it', this cancer might progress into metastases, and it brings higher mortality rate.
Primary tumors don't even really kill people that much- patients almost always die from metastases.
It is slowly spreading the metastases into mobile and desktop as well.
You have to make the choice if you want to live with some uncertainty (the cancer could progress into metastases) or to get treatment now.
If you have got cancer in your liver and lung then those are probably metastases, and most often the original cancer is in the colon.
And I've had Stereotactic RadioSurgery a few times for metastases in my brain.
It's the plethora of metastases it forms that does.
The secondary effects on my kidneys (which were already doing poorly before this started) and liver (cirrhosis) plus the metastases in lymph nodes and lung leads to edema.
Tumors that you can find don't kill people with cancer, its the millions of metastases all over the body (or a specific organ) which actually cause cancer to be deadly.
Quote examples
It is a long way off clinical application but could potentially be useful for treatment of "in transit" metastases - e.g.
Metastases usually imply a good chunk of "god mode" features gained already, for solid tissue cancers (soft tissue cancers are a bit different), so it’s a bad starting point.
It's just that secondary site metastases like this ZH aren't as obviously descredited, so all the "keeping an open mind to the extent my brains have fallen out" conspiracy-flirters, semi-kooks, and other morons keep sucking the propaganda teat.
From it: "skeletal muscle tissue is resistant to cancer, and furthermore, not only to cancer, but of metastases going to skeletal muscle" (not entirely true, you have rhabdomiosarcomas, though they are rare and may originate in connective tissues, but she's definetely on to something).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use metastases in a sentence?
Don't cancer metastases have more to do with cancer mutations allowing the cancer cells to form new tumors?
What does metastases mean?
A change in nature, form, or quality.
What part of speech is metastases?
metastases is commonly used as noun.