abscopal

Etymology
From and. Term first described by Dr. R. J. Mole in 1953 in the British Journal of Radiology, "Whole body irradiation- radiobiology or medicine?" . Br. J. Radiol., 26: 234-241, 1953.

Adjective

 * 1) Denoting the effect that irradiation of a tissue has on remote nonirradiated tissue.
 * The regression of a liver tumor after irradiation of bone that the tumor metastasized to is an example of the abscopal effect.