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metastasise

verb/məˈtæstəsaɪz/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To spread from an original site to form secondary tumours elsewhere in the body.

Melanomas are notorious for their capacity to metastasise early, even from thin primary lesions.

Similar: spread

Topic: Oncology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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