英语释义
1. to spread or grow by or as if by metastasis
died of lung cancer which had metastasized throughout his body
— G. P. Elliott
2. to spread by metastasis
… all ten were primary brain cancers; that is, they had originated in the brain, and not metastasized there from elsewhere in the body.
— Paul Brodeur, The New Yorker, 9 July 1990