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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Spread over a large area of a body, tissue, or organ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Min.) Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance; scattered widely.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disseminate.
  • adjective spread around; widespread
  • adjective medicine spread over a wide area of the body or of an organ

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Examples

  • I think most people just kind of catch wind of a sort of national zeitgeist that essentially was disseminated from a news source somewhere down the line.

    Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Opinion Polarization on the Rise 2010

  • How widely the views of these transphobes are disseminated is perhaps more to do with their chosen medium of expression than whether or not what they say is factually correct.

    Transgender Day of Remembrance 2008 2008

  • Finally, not being disseminated is a suppression of intelligence.

    Memorandum 1996

  • Jews and Christians, were disseminated from the Persian Gulf to the

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Women with lupus, especially those with low complement levels, are more prone to develop a particularly severe form of gonorrhea called disseminated gonorrhea, in which the infection enters the bloodstream and can cause fever and arthritic symptoms.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Women with lupus, especially those with low complement levels, are more prone to develop a particularly severe form of gonorrhea called disseminated gonorrhea, in which the infection enters the bloodstream and can cause fever and arthritic symptoms.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Women with lupus, especially those with low complement levels, are more prone to develop a particularly severe form of gonorrhea called disseminated gonorrhea, in which the infection enters the bloodstream and can cause fever and arthritic symptoms.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Seeds, when ripened in the fruit, are disseminated, that is to say, scattered on the surface of the ground, to sprout in spots as yet unoccupied and fill the expanses that realize favourable conditions.

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • In both cases, shortly after the birth of a child the patient had developed a nightmarish complication called disseminated intravascular coagulation.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system, leading to demyelination.

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