Disseminierte

Disseminierte is a German adjective derived from disseminieren (to disseminate). It describes something that has spread or been distributed widely, often as the result of a process rather than a single event. Etymologically it comes from Latin disseminare via the adoption into German.

In scientific and medical language, disseminierte describes diseases, infections or pathologies that extend beyond a localized site to multiple distant sites. Typical phrases include disseminierte Infektion, disseminierte Tuberkulose, or disseminierte Malaria. In oncology the term is used for cancer that has spread to distant organs; alternatively “metastasiert” is common, but disseminierte Krebserkrankung is widely understood.

Outside medicine, disseminierte can describe information, seeds, or populations that have been distributed broadly, though the noun form Dissemination or the phrase “disseminierte Informationen” is more common in technical writing, while everyday language often uses “verbreitet” or “weit verbreitet.”

Notes: The exact usage varies by discipline and region; in medical and scientific contexts, more precise terms may be preferred to indicate the site and mechanism of spread. See also Dissemination and metastasis for related concepts.