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metastasis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Metastasis  \Me*tas"ta*sis\,  n.;  pl  {Metastases}.  [L., 
  transition,  fr  Gr  ?,  fr  ?  to  place  in  another  way  ?  after 
  +  ?  to  place.] 
  1.  (Theol.)  A  spiritual  change,  as  during  baptism. 
 
  2.  (Med.)  A  change  in  the  location  of  a  disease,  as  from  one 
  part  to  another.  --Dunglison. 
 
  3.  (Physiol.)  The  act  or  process  by  which  matter  is  taken  up 
  by  cells  or  tissues  and  is  transformed  into  other  matter; 
  in  plants,  the  act  or  process  by  which  are  produced  all  of 
  those  chemical  changes  in  the  constituents  of  the  plant 
  which  are  not  accompanied  by  a  production  of  organic 
  matter;  metabolism. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  metastasis 
  n  1:  the  spreading  of  a  disease  to  another  part  of  the  body 
  2:  the  organic  processes  (in  a  cell  or  organism)  that  are 
  necessary  for  life  [syn:  {metabolism},  {metabolic  process}] 




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