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Metaphysis vs Metastasis - What's the difference?

metaphysis | metastasis |

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

English

Noun

(wikipedia metaphysis) (metaphyses)
  • (anatomy) The part of a long bone that grows during development
  • change of form; transformation
  • Anagrams

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    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

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