heterogeneously
- a word derived from heterogeneous.
Example Sentences
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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
For those with dense breasts, it’s important to know that there are two levels of density: heterogeneously dense and extremely dense.
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
The first night out there was not enough snow to make a wind-break of the drifts; so the sleighs were piled on edge to windward, dogs and men lying heterogeneously in their shelter.
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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
