metastasis

/məˈtæstəsɪs/

The development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer

metastasis in a sentence

“Early treatment prevented metastasis.”

From Greek metastasis (removal, change), from methistanai (to remove, change), from meta- (change) + histanai (to place)

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