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A spiritual change, as during baptism.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.

The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.

The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.

The transfer of a neoplasm from one organ or part of the body to another remote from the primary site.

Transposition of disease from one part of the body to another.

Metabolism; transference of function from one organ to another.

A change in the seat of a disease; attributed, by the Humorists, to the translation of the morbific matter to a part different from that which it had previously occupied: and by the Solidists, to the displacement of the irritation. It has also been used in the same extensive sense as Metaptosis. Disputes have often been indulged, whether a case of metastasis ought not rather to be esteemed one of extension of the disease. The phenomena of gout and acute rheumatism are in favour of metastasis occasionally supervening.

Transfer of disease from one organ to another.

The sudden subsidence of an inflammation, with the appearance at the same time of inflammation in another part not anatomically connected with the part first diseased, as in the orchitis following mumps.

The progress of disease from one part of the body to another by recognized channels, as in the development of secondary carcinoma in the liver following a primary tumor in the stomach. [Gr.]