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What does metastasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) 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.
  2. (figuratively) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
  3. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
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Breast tumors may also be the result of metastasis from primary prostate cancer.
The most common intracranial sites of prostate cancer metastasis are the leptomeninges, cerebrum, and cerebellum.
This eliminates perverse growth, anticipating the metastasis that is seeking to re-enter the system.
This has been suggested to affect cancer cell adhesiveness, which may subsequently have consequences on metastasis.
The sudden onset of myelopathy secondary to spinal metastasis is a true neurologic emergency.
A malignant neoplasm in the neck can arise as a primary tumor or as metastasis from the upper aerodigestive tract or a distant site.

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