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   metastasis

   /mɪˈtastəsɪs/

   noun

   • 1. the development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer: "an increased risk of metastasis"
   • ▪ a metastatic growth: "the patient developed pleural and liver metastases"

   Word Origin late 16th century (as a rhetorical term, meaning ‘rapid transition from one point to another’): from Greek, literally ‘removal or change’, from methistanai ‘to change’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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