Definizione monolingua

metastasis

metastasis (plural metastases)

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.
   • 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.

2. (rhetoric) Denying adversaries arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Definizione dizionario metastasis

	metastasi
	the transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body

	metàstasi
	The spread of cancer cells to previously unaffected organs.

Altri significati:

(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.

(rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.