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oligometastases

oligometastases is the plural of oligometastasis.

Meaning of oligometastasis

Noun

oligometastasis (countable and uncountable, plural oligometastases)

  1. A state of limited metastasis, especially of cancer, with several (but not many) metastatic sites.
    • Despite an increasing interest in oligometastases, the definition of the term “oligometastases” can be very confusing because it has been dependent on the particular research. Many researchers have defined oligometastases as metastases that are limited in both number (typically, less than 5) and...2015, Hiroyuki Kaneda, Yukihito Saito, “Oligometastases: defined by prognosis and evaluated by cure”, in Cancer Treatment Communications, volume 3, →DOI, pages 1–6
  2. Any of the several metastatic tumors/sites in such a state.

Questions about oligometastases

What is oligometastases the plural of?
Oligometastases is the plural of oligometastasis.

Words near oligometastases in the dictionary

  1. oligomerizing
  2. oligomerous
  3. oligomers
  4. oligomery
  5. oligomesotrophic
  6. oligometastases
  7. oligometastasis
  8. oligometastatic
  9. oligomethylenic
  10. oligometric
  11. oligomicroarray

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