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.
berm (plural berms) A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath. A terrace formed by wave action along a beach. A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.