EXTENSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extensively mean? 

• EXTENSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb EXTENSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in a widespread way

  Familiarity information: EXTENSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTENSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a widespread way

Context example:

oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest

Pertainym:

extensive (large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity)

 Context examples 

A diffuse glial tumor which infiltrates the brain extensively, involving more than two lobes.

(Gliomatosis Cerebri, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic trophoblastic disorder characterized by the presence of an increased number of implantation-site intermediate trophoblasts infiltrating the endometrium and myometrium extensively.

(Exaggerated Placental Site, NCI Thesaurus)

Mercury’s polar deposits are dominantly composed of water ice and extensively distributed in both Mercury’s north and south polar regions.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

Tightly associated with the plasma membrane and extensively palmitoylated, MPP1 interacts with DLG5 and is suspected to play a role in signal transduction.

(Palmitoylated Membrane Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent is extensively metabolized in the liver and the metabolites as well as the unchanged form are excreted in the urine.

(Glipizide, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the primary functions of this cell is in implantation and in the establishment of the uteroplacental circulation since it extensively invades the spiral arteries at the placental site.

(Intermediate Type Trophoblastic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The most extensively studied and used agents contain 2'-substituted modifications, such as 2'-O-methyl.

(Mixed-Backbone Oligonucleotide, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer that has spread too extensively beyond its original site of growth to allow complete surgical removal.

(Late Stage, NCI Thesaurus)

The folding of alpha-lactalbumin, which is related to lysozyme, has been studied extensively as a model of the mechanisms involved in protein folding.

(Lactose Synthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Obvious extension of glands, nests or single cells extensively into stroma, including with apparent widening of the stroma (eosinophilic collagenous tissue), potentially reflecting desmoplasia, or into periprostatic fat

(Invasive Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)