Metaphysis vs Metastasis - What's the difference?
metaphysis | metastasis |
(anatomy) The part of a long bone that grows during development
change of form; transformation
(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.
(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.
As nouns the difference between metaphysis and metastasis
is that metaphysis is (anatomy) the part of a long bone that grows during development while metastasis is metastasis.metaphysis
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*metastasis
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(metastases)- 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.