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Metastasised vs Metastasized - What's the difference?

metastasised | metastasized |

As verbs the difference between metastasised and metastasized

is that metastasised is (metastasise) while metastasized is (metastasize).

metastasised

English

Verb

(head)
  • (metastasise)

    • metastasise

    English

    Verb

    (metastasis)

    • metastasized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (metastasize)

    • metastasize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metastasise

    Verb

    (metastasiz)
  • (medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
  • * 1989 , Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye :
    • On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes .
  • * 2001 , David Lodge, Thinks... :
    • ‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’