metastasis

Meaning

Noun

• A change in nature, form, or quality.
• The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
• The spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
• Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

Origin

• From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις, from μεθίστημι