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Metabolism vs Metastasis - What's the difference?

metabolism | metastasis |

As a proper noun metabolism

is a post-war japanese architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.

As a noun metastasis is

metastasis.

metabolism

English

(wikipedia metabolism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physiology) The complete set of chemical reactions that occur in living cells.

    • metastasis

    English

    Noun

    (metastases)
  • (medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
  • * 1963: Thomas Pynchon, V.
    • Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
  • (metaphor) The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
  • (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

    • Derived terms

    * metastasectomy * metastasized * metastasizing * metastatic

    See also

    * ("metastasis" on Wikipedia)

    References

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