Those bits of wood that come with a canvas are called canvas keys, and are for ensuring the canvas remains tight. Photo Â© Marion Boddy-Evans.Licensed to About.com, Inc.f youâve bought an unprimed ready-made canvas, or are stretching your own, donât use keys until after youâve primed the canvas, as priming makes the it more rigid. Some canvases are made with rigid corners, without the option of hammering in a wedge or key.
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A cancer that has spread from the place where it first started to another place in the body is called metastatic cancer. The process by which cancer cells spread to other parts of the body is called metastasis. Metastatic cancer has the same name and the same type of cancer cells as the original, or primary, cancer. For example, breast cancer that spreads to and forms a metastatic tumor in the lung is metastatic breast cancer, not lung cancer.