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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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A computed tomography scan showed multiple nodules in the liver and bilateral pulmonary metastasis.
This eliminates perverse growth, anticipating the metastasis that is seeking to re-enter the system.
There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe.
Breast tumors may also be the result of metastasis from primary prostate cancer.
A malignant neoplasm in the neck can arise as a primary tumor or as metastasis from the upper aerodigestive tract or a distant site.
In these cases, the presence of distant metastasis was a clear sign of malignancy.

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