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Metastatic is a medical word describing cancer that has spread from where it started to a different part of the body. Doctors use it mainly as part of the phrase 'metastatic cancer' or 'metastatic disease' - it's a serious, technical word you'll mostly meet in health news or medical contexts, not everyday conversation.
（癌症）轉移性的
組成meta- (change, beyond) + -static, from Greek 'histanai' (to stand/place) → literally 'a change of place'
同家族的字
- metastasisthe noun form - the spreading of the cancer itself
- staticshares the Greek root about 'standing/being in place'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
metastaticadj/mɛtəˈstætɪk/
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medicinesciencesRelating to, or producing metastasis.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。