People often need long-term care when they have a serious, ongoing health condition or disability. The need for long-term care can arise suddenly, such as after a heart attack or stroke. Most often, however, it develops gradually, as people get older and frailer or as an illness or disability gets worse.
Metastasis, or metastatic disease, is the spread of a cancer or other disease from one organ or part to another not directly connected with it. The new occurrences of disease thus generated are referred to as metastases /mÉ Ëtaes ËtÃ¦s tÉ/ (siËz sometimes abbreviated). mets
(plural metastases). ( 1 medicine) The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers. ( 2 rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.