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metastasis
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  • According to the scanner, the nematodic filaments are the result of extensive but simple metastasis.†  (source)
    metastasis = the spreading of a disease to another part of the body
  • 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)
    metastases = spreads to other parts of the body
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  • As you can see, the cancer's metastasized," he said.†  (source)
    metastasized = spread to other parts of the body
    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.
  • 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)
    metastasizing = spreading to other parts of the body
  • She had educated herself enough about cancer treatment to know that 208 indicated metastasis: a death sentence.†  (source)
    metastasis = the spreading of a disease to another part of the body
  • Lurking in our limited gene pools may swim metastatic brain tumors and every type of depression and recessed cystic fibrosis, but also high IQs and proficiencies with Romance languages.†  (source)
    metastatic = related to the spreading of a disease to another part of the body
  • 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.†  (source)
    metastasize = to spread to other parts of the body
  • Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.†  (source)
    metastasizes = spreads to other parts of the body
  • By late afternoon the squall had metastasized into another major storm.†  (source)
    metastasized = spread to other parts of the body
  • I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent.†  (source)
    metastasizing = spreading to other parts of the body
  • 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)
    metastasized = spread to other parts of the body
  • 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)
    metastasizing = spreading to other parts of the body
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