Metastasis vs Metamorphosis - What's the difference?
metastasis | metamorphosis |
(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.
A transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery
A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
(biology) A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development. (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog.)
(pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.
As nouns the difference between metastasis and metamorphosis
is that metastasis is metastasis while metamorphosis is a transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery.metastasis
English
Noun
(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.