metastasisin a sentence
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They caught the cancer before it metastasized.
metastasized = spread to other parts of the bodystandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- According to the scanner, the nematodic filaments are the result of extensive but simple metastasis.† (source)
- Metastatic calcification is associated with hypercalcemia, however.† (source)
- Metastatic, the doctor said.† (source)
- No, the doctor said, not once the metastasis occurs.† (source)
- And there was no way for us to find out that John didn't have locally invasive disease without metastases, because it required a diagnostic test that we can't do here.† (source)
- She had educated herself enough about cancer treatment to know that 208 indicated metastasis: a death sentence.† (source)
- As you can see, the cancer's metastasized," he said.† (source)
- The cancer had metastasized to my liver.† (source)
- By late afternoon the squall had metastasized into another major storm.† (source)
- In one patient, Henrietta's cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes.† (source)
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What had once looked like a manageable project seemed to be metastasizing.†
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standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- When the cancer metastasized to his spine and ribs, they knew the end was near.† (source)
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Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.†
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standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- With each visit I could sense it growing like metastasizing cancer, but I didn't care.† (source)
- And from the scans, it's metastasized to your pancreas and lungs.† (source)
- I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent.† (source)
- Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.† (source)
- He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city.† (source)
- Had we gotten to her a month earlier, before things had metastasized, we might have been able to save her.† (source)
- But in that brief span the storm abruptly metastasized into a full-blown hurricane, and the visibility dropped to less than twenty feet.† (source)
- Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.† (source)
- We did an autopsy, and we found that the tumor had metastasized all over her lungs, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract.† (source)
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When shipments were ready to go, Gey would warn recipients that the cells were about to "metastasize" to their cities, so they could stand ready to fetch the shipment and rush back to their labs.†
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standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- The chief pediatric oncologist at Mass General had told her that John had a reasonable chance if the cancer had not metastasized into his bones, and there was no way of telling, here in Cange, if that had happened.† (source)
- " Burkin once had a client who had a breast tumor that wasn't spotted until it had metastasized, and she wanted to sue her internist for the delayed diagnosis.† (source)
- All he knows is that his suspicion that he lacks prerequisite knowledge and acquired poise is metastasizing as he squints into the early morning sun, unable to fall back to sleep.† (source)
- Greg was then a chemistry and nursing student, and when he learned that his father's cancer had metastasized and spread to his lymph nodes and liver, he realized how quickly he could lose him.† (source)
- He knew what it meant when cancer metastasized, he knew what it meant to have cancer not only in his stomach, but also in his pancreas.† (source)
- Using as few medical terms as possible, Dr. Swaney explained to the jury the type of cancer that was killing Seth Hubbard, with emphasis on the tumors that metastasized to his spinal cord and ribs.† (source)
- He'd battled lung cancer for a year, with several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, all unsuccessful, and the tumors had finally metastasized to his ribs and spine.† (source)
- The cancer, she'd learned, had metastasized from his stomach to his pancreas and lungs, and holding out hope seemed dangerous.† (source)
- Cancer of that kind must be ghastly, those monstrous metastasizing cells so close to the brain—hideous little microscopic boll weevils invading cheek, sinuses, eye socket, jaw, filling the mouth with its fulminating virulence until the tongue, engulfed, rotted and fell dumb.† (source)
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