diffuse
These changes diffusely involve the entire liver.
The return on these investments is spread diffusely throughout society.
Graves disease is associated with a diffusely enlarged and slightly firm thyroid gland.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Spreading and scattering
all over the placeidiom
bedaub
bell
bestrew
billow
dispersion
disseminate
dotted around
dredge
dusting
encroach on/upon something
fan out
rambling
scatteringly
slap something on
slather
smear
smudge
smudgily
sprinkle

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diffusely
A third weakness in presentation is that information is sometimes given diffusely instead of in one section or chapter, thereby reducing effective communication of ideas.
Here we consider that some fraction 1 - of the particles is reflected specularly and that the remaining fraction is reflected diffusely.
Unlike the personal desire for the realization of an ideal, approval of democracy as a collective venture is more circumstantially than diffusely determined.
Equally, in certain sections, the model of emulation is used diffusely but not rigorously.
The positive area was dot-like and diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm (but not in the nucleus) of the nurse cell.
The pulmonary arteries were diffusely hypoplastic, but principally narrowed proximally.
The membrane of the oral cavity and the pharyngeal mucosa are diffusely red.
The rectus muscle was diffusely swollen and edematous, with surrounding fluid.
The right coronary artery was diffusely enlarged and formed a sacklike dilatation distally.
These structures project to the cingulate cortex and diffusely to a wide area of cortex.
The labelled compartments varied from small and discrete to large and more diffusely stained deposits.
The former light was used to diffusely, equally, and steadily illuminate the three panels.
This is because with diffusely reflecting surfaces, some sound energy is redistributed towards the source due to backscattering.
They described a wide-field, diffusely stratifying amacrine cell with dendrites bearing varicosities and ramifying in the innermost par t of the retina.
A ventilation perfusion scan of the lung demonstrated a diffusely decreased ventilation and perfusion in a matched pattern involving the right lung, which appeared small.
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