What's the difference between disseminate and seminate?

Disseminate


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.
  • (v. t. & i.) To spread or extend by dispersion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
  • (2) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (3) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (4) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
  • (5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
  • (6) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
  • (7) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
  • (8) Calculations were made to test whether the hypothesis of a multistep dissemination of the tumour from the primary site was likely.
  • (9) The skin lesions resembled disseminated subacute lupus erythematosus on clinical examination, but actinic granuloma or annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma was seen in biopsy specimens of the lesions.
  • (10) Among 137 consecutive patients who had a sterile body site cultured for mycobacteria within 3 months of their first AIDS-defining episode of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, median survival was significantly shorter in those with disseminated MAC infection (107 days; 95% confidence interval [CI] 55-179) than those with negative cultures (275 days; 95% CI 230-318; P less than .01), even after controlling for age, absolute lymphocyte count, and hemoglobin concentration.
  • (11) Acyclovir is commonly used for suppression and treatment of recurrent genital herpes simplex virus and may be indicated for pregnant women with disseminated herpes.
  • (12) A more regular distribution of these mites on the animals points to the mixing of the mites population that effects the dissemination of agents.
  • (13) We report the first case (to our knowledge) of disseminated Phialophora parasitica infection.
  • (14) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
  • (15) Splenomegaly in recipient mice suggested systemic dissemination of the local GvHR.
  • (16) Although the follow-up period is still short, the combined treatment of radiation and pre-radiation chemotherapy appears to be an effective treatment, and has made a major impact upon survival time in cases of disseminated esophageal carcinoma.
  • (17) A careful study of recurrences after operation, their localization, provides evidence for regarding that 6.9% had primary-multiple, combined, and disseminated affections.
  • (18) Immune complexes formed in vivo were also purified by conglutinin column from the serum of a patient with disseminated leishmaniasis.
  • (19) Spinal changes in 13 cases included vacuolar myelopathy (7 cases), HIV myelitis (1 case) and ganglio-radiculitis (1 cases), cytomegalovirus myelo-radiculitis (1 case) secondary spread from a lymphoma (1 case) and spinal infarcts due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (1 case).
  • (20) This cytotoxic regimen, which has been well tolerated, may prove valuable in the management of disseminated carcinoid tumours.

Seminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
  • (2) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (3) GC using the capillary columns proved suitable for mapping of the carbohydrate profile of human seminal fluid and for the analyses of organic compounds accumulating in human adipose tissue.
  • (4) The corresponding values for 1 ml seminal plasma were: 1-50, 0-439, 0-581, 0-594 and 0-010 mg.
  • (5) Air-regenerated monomers of bovine seminal ribonuclease have been found capable of reassociating into native dimers, whereas monomers refolded in the presence of a glutathione redox mixture do not reassociate into dimers [Smith, K. G., D'Alessio, G. and Schaffer, S. W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2633-2638].
  • (6) Repeated administration of high concentrations (10 muglml and above) of histamine produce tachyphylaxis in the seminal vesicle of guinea pig.
  • (7) This report describes the cytotoxic properties of human seminal plasma and demonstrates that the inhibition of response to mitogens shown by murine lymphocytes in the presence of whole human seminal plasma can be attributed largely to an effect of seminal components on lymphocyte viability.
  • (8) Immunoelectron microscopy of the rat seminal vesicle was performed using specific antibodies to secretory proteins.
  • (9) The effect of SV-IV, one of the major proteins secreted from the rat seminal vesicle epithelium, on phagocytosis and chemotaxis of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) has been studied.
  • (10) Volume of prostate and seminal vesicles was measured in patients with Klinefelter's syndrome by means of transrectal ultrasonography before and after testosterone replacement therapy.
  • (11) However the diagnostic accuracy of an elevated serum antigen level on an individual basis was only 55 per cent for capsular penetration and 50 per cent for seminal vesicle involvement and lymph node involvement.
  • (12) The previous demonstration that sperm kept at body temperature (37 degrees C) had a marked deterioration in motility accompanied by an overgrowth of bacteria in the semen and a concomitant decrease in pH led to this study to test the hypothesis that the decrease in motility was caused by the bacteria or by bacterial alteration of seminal pH.
  • (13) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.
  • (14) The seminal degeneration and regeneration associated with the development and spontaneous cure of scrotal mange were very similar to that seen following experimental elevation of testicular temperature.
  • (15) The acrosin inhibitors are localized in the mucosa cells of the cauda epididymis, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the urethra and distinct glandular units of the prostate.
  • (16) The maximum labelling indices which appeared on days 2 or 3 of administration of methyltestosterone were 24.3, 8.4, 9.6, 21.6 and 13.7% for the ventral, lateral and dorsal prostate, seminal vesicle and coagulating glands, respectively.
  • (17) It was concluded that the heat-induced substance(s) from leukocytes, which being highly possible the Hsps, interfered the mobility of wash human sperm and the inhibition might be antagonized by seminal plasma.
  • (18) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
  • (19) Relaxin in seminal fluid was determined radioimmunologically in 238 andrological patients with various ejaculate qualities.
  • (20) We have previously described the presence of a human seminal plasma component which may prevent the immunologic sensitization of females against sperm and seminal plasma antigens.

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