metastasize

音标发音

• 英式音标 [metˈæs.tə.saɪz]
• 美式音标 [metˈæs.tə.saɪz]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• vi.[医]（癌细胞等）转移，扩散；迁徙

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Small-cell lung cancer and adenocarcinoma commonly metastasize to the brain and are readily identifiable on CT.
  小细胞肺癌以及腺癌通常转移到脑，CT很容易将这种转移检测出来。
• These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, and do not invade or metastasize.
  与癌症的三大危害性迥然不同的是，良性肿瘤具有自限性，不侵犯或不转移特征。
• The actual target was breast cancer stem cells, the cells from which cancers grow and metastasize, and which tend to resist drug and radiation treatments.
  事实上，加热的目标是那些会导致癌症生长和转移、以及对药物和化疗有抵抗力的乳腺癌干细胞。

权威例句

• But when they metastasize and move into the body, invading bone, patients face an excruciatingly painful decline.
  FORBES: Men, Cancer & Hope
• Faced with a small but significant insurgency, American commanders employed a strategy that insured that it would metastasize.
  NEWYORKER: General Principles
• It blocks a protein called endothelin, which is secreted by prostate tumors in large amounts and helps them metastasize.
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词组短语

短语

• Lymphatic metastasize 淋巴道转移
• bone metastasize 骨转移
• Tumor growth and metastasize 肿瘤生长和转移
• Tending to metastasize 癌的
• brain metastasize of lung cancer 肺癌脑转移

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• If cancer cells metastasize, they spread to other parts of the body and cause tumours to grow there.

柯林斯英英字典

• If cancer cells metastasize, they spread to another part of the body.

专业释义

医药科学

• 转移

  Gastric cancer has a high degree of malignancy and is easy to metastasize.
  胃癌发病率和恶性程度比较高，是易于转移的的恶性肿瘤。