metastasis

• n. 転移; 代謝; [地質学的]均質な変態

meta-「変化する」、-st「立つ」、「位置する」、語源的にはstand.-asis「状態」と同じ。後に、体のある部分から別の部分へ病気が移ることを指すようになった。

metastasis (n.)

1570s, originally in rhetoric, from Late Latin metastasis "transition," from Greek metastasis "a removing, removal; migration; a changing; change, revolution," from methistanai "to remove, change," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). A rhetorical term in Late Latin for "a sudden transition in subjects," medical use for "shift of disease from one part of the body to another" dates from 1660s in English. Related: Metastatic.

1. Approximately one third of all patients with malignant disease have hepatic metastasis .

悪性病変を有する全患者の約1/3が肝転移を有する.

2.They are growing slowly with a propensity for local recurrence and metastasis .

腫瘍自体の特性は緩やかに大きくなり、局所的な再発と転移現象がある。

3.Conclusions：Basil polysaccharide may have multi-targets during the anti-cancer metastasis process.

結論：複数の薬効的標的を介したバジル多糖の抗腫瘍増殖および転移。

4.To understand basic theory of cancer pathogenesis，invasion and metastasis .

腫瘍発生発展の基本理論、腫瘍浸潤と転移のメカニズムを理解する。

5. Metastasis is the bestindication that a neoplasm is malignant.

転移は腫瘍が悪性であることを最も証明している。