metastasis

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /mɪˈtastəsɪs/
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• General-American: /məˈtæstəsəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæstəsiːs/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /mɪˈtastəsɪjs/
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• General-American: /məˈtæstəsiz/
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• CMU ARPABET: M AH0 T AE1 S T AH0 S IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”), and from its etymons Koine Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”) and Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “change; removal; (medicine) movement of disease, pain, etc., from one part of the body to another”), from μετᾰ- (metă-, prefix denoting change in condition or position) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meth2) + στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “condition, state; position”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh2- (“to stand (up)”)), modelled after μεθιστάναι (methistánai, “to change; to remove”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis. In reference to the spread of cancer, a semantic loan from French métastase, whose use to refer to it was coined in 1829 by the French gynecologist Joseph Récamier (1774–1852). The plural form metastases is a learned borrowing from Late Latin metastases.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: метастаз (metastaz) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Catalan: metàstasi — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉移 /转移 (zhuǎnyí) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 遠處轉移 /远处转移 (yuǎnchù zhuǎnyí) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 遠端轉移 /远端转移 (yuǎnduān zhuǎnyí) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 腫瘤轉移 /肿瘤转移 (of a tumour) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉移灶 /转移灶 (zhuǎnyízào) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 轉移瘤 /转移瘤 (zhuǎnyíliú) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Chinese Mandarin: 癌轉移 /癌转移 (áizhuǎnyí) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Czech: metastáza — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Danish: metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Dutch: uitzaaiing — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Dutch: metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Esperanto: metastazo — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Finnish: etäpesäke — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Finnish: metastaasi — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• French: métastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• German: Metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Hebrew: גרורה — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Hungarian: áttét — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Indonesian: metastasis — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Indonesian: metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Italian: metastasi — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Japanese: 転移 (ten'i) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Kazakh: метастаз (metastaz) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Northern Kurdish: metastaz — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Kyrgyz: метастаз (metastaz) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Latvian: riesums — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Latvian: metastāze — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Lithuanian: metastazė — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Norwegian Bokmål: metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Norwegian Nynorsk: metastase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Polish: przerzut — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Polish: metastaza — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Portuguese: metástase — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Romanian: metastază — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Russian: метаста́з (metastáz) — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Serbo-Croatian: метастаза — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Serbo-Croatian: metastaza — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Slovak: metastáza — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Spanish: metástasis — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Swedish: metastas — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Turkish: metastaz — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body
• Vietnamese: di căn — transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body