Words that rhyme with metastasis

  • ectasis
    n 1: dilatation or distension of a hollow organ [syn: ectasia, ectasis]
  • myiasis
    n 1: infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation
  • pertussis
    n 1: a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]
  • salmacis
    n 1: nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body
  • atelectasis
    n 1: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
  • diastasis
    n 1: separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
  • epistasis
    n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis]
  • hypostasis
    n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis] 2: the accumulation of blood in an organ 3: any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united [syn: hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ] 4: (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
  • ecdysis
    n 1: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis]
  • apodosis
  • assists
  • consists
  • cysts
  • enlists
  • exists
  • fists
  • iconostasis
  • insists
  • lists
  • persists
  • resists
  • twists
  • wrists
  • wyss
  • fariss
  • furniss
  • biss
  • preexists
  • catabasis
  • katabasis
  • parabasis
  • telesis
  • anastasis
  • cytoclasis
  • diaplasis
  • syndesis

See also metastasis definition and metastasis synonyms