METASTASIS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.

2.
n.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another. Dunglison.

3.
n.

The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.