Identical gain stages in Distributed amplifier:are they paralllel or cascaded?

Hi, The identical gain stages in DA, if I have 5 of them, can I say that it is a 5 stage DA? but we use " stage" notation only to cascade connections, in which the output of one stage is given to input of another but this is not the case in DA. Also if the voltage same across two devices, we sway that they are in parallel, this is the case in DA. So how do I refer to those gain stages, parallel connection or cascade connection? Thanks

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