Usually means: Spread of cancer to new areas.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word metastasis:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastasis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. metastasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metastasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metastasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metastasis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Metastasis, metastasis: Wordnik
  7. metastasis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. metastasis: Wiktionary
  9. metastasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. metastasis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. metastasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. metastasis: Dictionary.com
  13. metastasis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Metastasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Metastasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. metastasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. metastasis: Rhymezone
  18. Metastasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. metastasis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. metastasis: Free Dictionary
  21. metastasis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. metastasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. metastasis: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. metastasis: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metastasis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metastasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Metastasis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Metastasis: Merck Manuals
  5. metastasis: Sound Alike Words
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. metastasis: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. Metastasis: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  13. Metastasis: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. metastasis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. Metastasis: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  16. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  17. metastasis: Medical dictionary
  18. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  19. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  20. Metastasis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  21. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Metastasis: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  4. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

(Note: See metastases as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A change in nature, form, or quality.
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.
noun:  (figurative) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
noun:  (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

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