Metastasis

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A spiritual change, as during baptism.

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

3. 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.