metastasis
noun
[ mɪˈtastəsɪs ]
• the development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer.
• "an increased risk of metastasis"
Origin:
late 16th century (as a rhetorical term, meaning ‘rapid transition from one point to another’): from Greek, literally ‘removal or change’, from methistanai ‘to change’.
