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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats