Dissemination

Dissemination ( " sow " from Latin disseminare; adjective: disseminated ) is best described as " spread " or " sowing " translated.

Medicine

When a pathological process, the wide distribution of disease symptoms or pathogens in an organ (system) or throughout the body is referred to as dissemination. An example is the Multiple Sclerosis described also disseminated encephalomyelitis. In this specific case, the relapsing character is considered as a temporal dissemination and is in addition to the requisite spatial dissemination another diagnostic criterion. In infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, dissemination is the sign and name for an advanced stage in which to expand the initially localized on a stove pathogens to large parts of the body. The concept of dissemination is also applied to pathological dysregulation as the Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. In malignant neoplastic disease is the term metastasis more common.

Science

In science, the publication of research results is also referred to as dissemination.