DISSEMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disseminate mean? 

• DISSEMINATE (verb)
  The verb DISSEMINATE has 1 sense:

1. cause to become widely known

  Familiarity information: DISSEMINATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSEMINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disseminate    ... he / she / it disseminates   
Past simple: disseminated   
Past participle: disseminated   
-ing form: disseminating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Context example:

broadcast the news

Hypernyms (to "disseminate" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disseminate"):

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dissemination (the act of dispersing or diffusing something)

dissemination (the property of being diffused or dispersed)

dissemination (the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate)

disseminative (spreading by diffusion)

disseminator (someone who spreads the news)

 Context examples 

Causes include thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation, bone marrow disorders, and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

(Excessive Blood Clotting, NCI Thesaurus)

Stage IV NHL means disseminated (multifocal) involvement of one or more extralymphatic sites with or without associated lymph node involvement or isolated extralymphatic organ involvement with distant (nonregional) nodal involvement.

(Follicle Centre Lymphoma, Follicular Grade I, II, III Stage IV, NCI Thesaurus)

Juvenile xanthogranuloma disseminated to extracutaneous sites including mucosal surfaces, lung, central nervous system, pituitary, lymph nodes, eye, liver, and bone marrow.

(Disseminated Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a disseminated infection affecting the central nervous system, subcutaneous tissues, lungs, heart and liver.

(Cysticercosis, NCI Thesaurus)

M. avium is found in soil and dust particles and can cause infection when inhaled or ingested, especially causing disseminated infection in immunocompromised patients.

(Mycobacterium avium, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute or chronic, localized or disseminated infection by Cryptococcus neoformans.

(Cryptococcosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Benign granulomatous disease of unknown etiology characterized by a ring of localized or disseminated papules or nodules on the skin and palisading histiocytes surrounding necrobiotic tissue resulting from altered collagen structures.

(Granuloma Annulare, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Originating in the blood, or disseminated by the circulation or through the bloodstream.

(Hematogenous, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from Rockefeller Swiss mice that were disseminated to the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia (1948).

(ICR BR Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

M. fortuitum is found in natural and processed water sources, sewage and dirt, and can cause various clinical syndromes, including local disease after injury or surgical trauma, and disseminated infection in immunocompromised patients.

(Mycobacterium fortuitum, NCI Thesaurus)