English Explanatory Dictionary

metastatic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to, or producing metastasis.

Pronunciation

/mɛtəˈstætɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metastatic.wav

Word forms

metastatic

Etymology

From French métastatique, from méta- + statique, as an adjective corresponding to métastase (“metastasis”), perhaps after Koine Greek μεταστατικός (metastatikós). By surface analysis, meta- + static.

Related words

metastasis

Derived words

antimetastatic intermetastatic intrametastatic macrometastatic metastatically metastaticity micrometastatic multimetastatic nonmetastatic oligometastatic plurimetastatic polymetastatic premetastatic prometastatic pseudometastatic supermetastatic
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