different between metastasis vs metastasize

English

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (metástasis, “removal, change”), from ????????? (methíst?mi, “to remove, to change”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??tæst?s?s/

Noun

metastasis (countable and uncountable, plural metastases)

1. A change in nature, form, or quality.
2. (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.
   • 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.

     Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.

3. (figuratively) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
4. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

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See also

• metastasis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Indonesian

Etymology

From English metastasis, from Late Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ?????????? (metástasis, “removal, change”), from ????????? (methíst?mi, “to remove, to change”). Doublet of metastase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?ta?stasis]
• Hyphenation: mè?ta?sta?sis

Noun

metastasis or mètastasis

1. metastasis,
   1. (chemistry) a change in nature, form, or quality.
   2. (medicine, oncology) 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.

Alternative forms

• metastase

Further reading

• “metastasis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

English

Alternative forms

• metastasise

Etymology

From metastasis +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??tæst?s??z/

Verb

metastasize (third-person singular simple present metastasizes, present participle metastasizing, simple past and past participle metastasized)

1. (medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
   • 1989, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

     On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.

   • 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...:

     ‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’

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