Tour results indicate that the difference between enamel and dentin hardness has. nothing to do with the content of Na, Cl and Mg, but the percentage of organic and inorganic. materials in enamel and dentin. Keywords: microhardness, chemical composition, human tooth, enamel, dentin. 1. Introduction.
Medical Definition of metastatic. 1  1: of, relating to, or caused by metastasis cutaneous metastatic disease as the first sign of lung cancer metastatic carcinoma metastatic spread. 2  2: tending to metastasize metastatic cancer cells metastatic prostate cancer.
Metastasis: 1. The process by which cancer spreads from the place at which it first arose as a primary tumor to distant locations in the body. 2. The cancer resulting from the spread of the primary tumor. For example, someone with melanoma may have a metastasis in their brain. And a person with colon cancer may, fortunately, show no metastases. Metastasis depends on the cancer cells acquiring two separate abilities -- increased motility and invasiveness.