metastatic

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ static.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛtəˈstætɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

metastatic (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Relating to, or producing metastasis.
   • 2025 April 27, Dakin Andone, “3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say”, in CNN‎:

     Three children who are US citizens, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, were taken to Honduras with their mothers, who were deported last week, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.

Derived terms

• antimetastatic
• intermetastatic
• macrometastatic
• metastatically
• metastaticity
• micrometastatic
• multimetastatic
• nonmetastatic
• oligometastatic
• plurimetastatic
• premetastatic
• prometastatic
• supermetastatic

Related terms

• metastasis

Translations

relating to metastasis

Czech: metastatický French: métastatique (fr) Italian: metastatico (it) Portuguese: metastático m Spanish: metastático

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métastatique.

Adjective

metastatic m or n (feminine singular metastatică, masculine plural metastatici, feminine and neuter plural metastatice)

1. metastatic

Declension

Declension of metastatic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	metastatic		metastatică		metastatici	metastatice
	definite	metastaticul		metastatica		metastaticii	metastaticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	metastatic		metastatice		metastatici	metastatice
	definite	metastaticului		metastaticei		metastaticilor	metastaticelor