Metastasize

/məˈtæstəsaɪz/

Synonyms for "metastasize" (35 found)

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diffusiondisease progressiondistributepathological processspread

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hematogenous spreadlymphatic spreadrumor spreadviral diffusion

Collocations

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distant metastasismetastasis pathwaymetastasis suppressormetastatic cancermetastatic spreadrate of metastasis

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

“I remember the first time he woke up throwing up, and my first thought wasn't, ‘Oh he has the stomach flu,'” she said. “It was, ‘Oh, it's gone to his brain, and it's metastasized his brain, and he's throwing up because of that.'”

Source: wiktionary

If enough Americans expose themselves to the virus and become immune, the theory goes, the country would have a mobilized cadre of immune citizens. […] The article was widely discredited by public health experts and economists, as both logically dubious and ethically specious, but such thinking has already metastasized.

Source: wiktionary

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