metastatic tumor

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metastatic tumor - a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the bodymalignant neoplasm, malignant tumorneoplasm, tumor, tumour - an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purposecarcinosarcoma - a malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixedmalignance, malignancy - (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause deathcancer, malignant neoplastic disease - any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood streamangiosarcoma - a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vesselsmyeloma - a tumor of the bone marrow (usually malignant) composed of cells normally found in bone marrowneuroblastoma - malignant tumor containing embryonic nerve cells; usually metastasizes quicklyneuroepithelioma - malignant tumor of the neuroepitheliumretinoblastoma - malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells