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disseminate

(dih-SEH-mih-NAYT)
In medicine, disseminate means to scatter or spread widely throughout the body’s tissues or organs. For example, cancer cells can break away from the original (primary) tumor, travel through the blood or lymph system, and disseminate to other organs or tissues in the body.
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