metastasis

  1. Noun.  (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. Noun.  (rhetoric) Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.

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