metastatic
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Relating to the spread of cancer from its origin to distant sites in the body.
By the time of diagnosis the disease was metastatic, with deposits in the liver and lungs.
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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