Associations to the word «Metastasis»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

METASTASIS, noun. The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley