metastasis

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To prevent metastasis you would need to be permanently linked-up to this machine.

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the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

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noun

the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

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noun

the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

Example sentences

To prevent metastasis you would need to be permanently linked-up to this machine.

I wouldn't mind an entry about the metastasis of Javascript beyond the confines of the browser.

I'm much more offended by the gruesome metastasis of copyright into an finite but unbounded bludgeon.

Furthermore: "In my lifetime, I expect the copyright cancer to complete its metastasis.

For metastasis brain tumors the life expectancy is approximately one year.

Facebook is entirely self-serving, as evidenced by its metastasis into even more of our lives.

And then another study about how polyunsaturated fats can cause metastasis -- wait no they are effective against tumors in another study.

"Could it be that once cells are approximately 2-3 cell-diameters away from a blood vessel they die of hypoxia, and thus cannot break through a basement membrane and achieve metastasis without evolving a tolerance for hypoxia?

The part that jumped out at me was this: "for most solid tumors the time from founder mutation to clinically apparent metastasis is between 20 and 30 years"If cancer is really this ultimate chimearan opponent, why don't we put more emphasis on detecting it during the twenty years before it becomes dangerous?It would be difficult to detect changes at the cellular level at any location in the human body.