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dif·fuse

 (dĭ-fyo͞oz′)
v. dif·fused, dif·fus·ing, dif·fus·es
v.tr.
1. To cause to spread out freely: smoke that is diffused throughout the room.
2. To make known to or cause to be used by large numbers of people; disseminate: diffuses ideas over the internet.
3. To make less brilliant; soften: light that is diffused through frosted glass.
4. To make less intense; weaken: a remark that diffused the tension in the interview.
5. Physics To cause to undergo diffusion.
v.intr.
1. To become widely dispersed; spread out: The hormone diffuses throughout the body.
2. Physics To undergo diffusion.
adj. (dĭ-fyo͞os′)
1. Widely spread or scattered; not concentrated: Diffuse light is often hard to read by.
2. Wordy or unclear: a diffuse description. See Synonyms at wordy.
[From Middle English, dispersed, from Anglo-Norman diffus, from Latin diffūsus, past participle of diffundere, to spread : dis-, out, apart; see dis- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]
dif·fuse′ly (-fyo͞os′lē) adv.
dif·fuse′ness (-fyo͞os′nĭs) n.
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Adv.1.diffusely - in a diffuse manner; "the arteries were diffusely narrowed"
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As he continued his harangue, however, Kory-Kory, in emulation of our more polished orators, began to launch out rather diffusely into other branches of his subject, enlarging probably upon the moral reflections it suggested; and proceeded in such a strain of unintelligible and stunning gibberish, that he actually gave me the headache for the rest of the day.
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Grant's being so well settled in life without being handsome, and expressed her astonishment on that point almost as often, though not so diffusely, as Mrs.
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"I can't give you Mumps, 'cause he'd break his heart to go away from me--eh, Mumps, what do you say, you riff-raff?" (Mumps declined to express himself more diffusely than by a single affirmative movement of his tail.) "But I'd get you a pup, Miss, an' welcome."
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White, lacy plaques were seen diffusely embedded in the inflamed mucosal surfaces (figure).
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Diffusely enlarged parotid glands with multicystic involvement were seen on ultrasound (Figure 1).
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The soft palate and posterior pharynx, seen only with difficulty, were diffusely swollen, protruding anteriorly, and covered with exudate.
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Clinical examination revealed a firm to hard, diffusely enlarged thyroid mass measuring - 12x10 cm.
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These atypical glands were diffusely strongly positive for p63 in the secretory cells (ie, not in a basal cell distribution), negative for high-molecular-weight cytokeratin (HMWCK), and positive for [alpha]-methylacyl coenzyme A racemase (AMACR) (Figure 1, D).
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The thyroid is diffusely enlarged, although nodules may be seen in longstanding or treated disease.
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The left common carotid artery (Figure 3) and external carotid artery (Figure 4) were diffusely small, but with normal Doppler waveforms.
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On histopathological examination, section showed sheets of diffusely infiltrating discohesive cells, completely obliterating the seminiferous tubules.
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Immunohistochemical studies showed that the tumor cells in the primary ovarian mass were strongly and diffusely positive for cytokeratin 7 (Figure 2, A) and cytokeratin 8/18, including the spindle cells within
Ovarian serous carcinoma associated with a distinct "corded and hyalinized" pattern

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