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Metastasis vs Antimetastasis - What's the difference?

metastasis | antimetastasis |

In medicine terms the difference between metastasis and antimetastasis

is that 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 while antimetastasis is that inhibits metastasis.

As a noun 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.

As an adjective antimetastasis is

that inhibits metastasis.

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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    antimetastasis

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (medicine) That inhibits metastasis