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.
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Metastasize
//məˈtæstəsaɪz//
Synonyms for "metastasize" (32 found)
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17 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- metastatitzar verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 轉移 /转移 verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Danish
1 entries- metastasere verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Dutch
2 entries- metastaseren verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
- uitzaaien verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Finnish
2 entries- metastasoida verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
- metastasoitua verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
French
1 entries- métastaser verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
German
1 entries- metastasieren verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Hungarian
3 entries- metasztatizál verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
- áttétet ad verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
- áttétet képez verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Japanese
1 entries- 転移する verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Romanian
1 entries- metastaza verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Spanish
1 entries- metastatizar verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Swedish
1 entries- metastasera verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Vietnamese
1 entries- di căn verb (to spread to other sites in the body)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’
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“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.'”
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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.
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