For example, if kidney cancer spreads to the lungs, the cancer cells in the lungs are actually kidney cancer cells. The disease is metastatic kidney cancer, not lung cancer. It is treated as kidney cancer, not lung cancer. Doctors sometimes call the new tumor metastatic or distant disease.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Rock Bottom. Rock Bottom is the second solo album by former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt. It was released on 26 July 1974 by Virgin Records.
Bottom-Dweller. 1  An insult which indicates that the recipient is a member of society's lowest levels. This may have stemmed from Elizabethean times, when the poorer viewers at a theatre had to watch from the ground (hence their nickname, 'Groundlings'), which had no seats.