Metaplasia vs Metastasis - What's the difference?
metaplasia | metastasis |
(biology) the conversion of one type of tissue into another
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(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 metaplasia and metastasis
is that metaplasia is the conversion of one type of tissue into another while metastasis is 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.metaplasia
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(wikipedia metaplasia)Noun
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.