Acute viral hepatitis is inflammation of the liver caused by infection with one of the five hepatitis viruses. In most people, the inflammation begins suddenly and lasts only a few weeks. Symptoms range from none to very severe.
verb (used with object), disseminated, disseminating. 1. to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine. Origin of disseminate.
c.1600, from Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare to spread abroad, disseminate, from dis-in every direction (see dis-) + seminare to plant, propagate, from semen (genitive seminis) seed (see semen). Related: Disseminated; disseminates; disseminating. Middle English had dissemen to scatter (early 15c.).