heterogeneous
adjective
different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
heterogeneously
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a word derived from
heterogeneous.
Example Sentences
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If you have heterogeneously dense breast tissue and other risk factors, such as a mother or sister who had breast cancer, you should seek further screening, she advised.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026
Forty-year-old Raineau has heterogeneously dense breast tissue, something she learned only after being diagnosed with Stage 2 HER2-positive hormone-negative breast cancer in 2024.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026
The results came back clear, but with a caveat—"the breast tissue is heterogeneously dense, which could obscure detection of small masses" — and a recommendation: a routine follow-up in one year.
From Salon ● May 28, 2023
I did have an elevated risk factor, though: that "heterogeneously dense" breast tissue that appeared in my mammogram.
From Salon ● May 28, 2023
Men and stones slithered heterogeneously down the sliding gravel into the water.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
