Strange Rubric?

[Shannon Nelson]

So you would understand "metamorphosis" to be, e.g. the bedsores example, or
(trying to think of other possibilities) muscle wasting, bowel changes...
Can't think what else...
Shannon

on 12/8/02 2:00 AM, Roger Barr at rbarr@pacific.net wrote:

[Dave Hartley]

Although people nowadays tend to identify metastasis with cancer- (since the
meme has been subverted by the cancer "Growth Industry") - the word is
general, and describes a process we see in TB,
on in Mumps; metastasis to mammae or testicle. The word is used as a
general term in our literature.

Metastasis
Me*tas"ta*sis (?), n.; pl. Metastases (#). [L., transition, fr. Gr. , fr. to
place in another way; after + to place.]
1. (Theol.) A spiritual change, as during baptism.
2. (Med.) A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to
another. Dunglison.
3. (Physiol.) 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.
Webster Dictionary, 1913
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