metastatic tumor

Questions about metastatic tumor

What does metastatic tumor mean?

metastatic tumor means "a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body".

What is another word for metastatic tumor?

Close synonyms include malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metastatic tumor a common word?

metastatic tumor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.