metastatic
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Met·a·stat·ic
a.
Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth; a metastatic tumor.
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metastatic
Pertaining to or of the nature of a metastasis.
- m. abscesses — abscesses seeded down in tissues distant from a mother abscess.
- m. calcification — deposition of calcification in soft tissues, e.g. muscles and connective tissue.
- m. cascade — the series of events leading to metastasis, starting with detachment of neoplastic cells from the primary site through to attachment and tumor growth at a distant site.
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