What's the difference between albescence and whitishness?

Albescence


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was reported a case of a 55-year-old woman with giant uterine polylobated leiomyofibromatosis with an albescent-reddish fluctuating nodule, of a mesodermal heterologous mixed tumour aspect.
  • (2) The tumour, free from skin and pectoral muscles, was after mammectomy 25 x 15 x 5 cm, 2.200 grs, multilobaed, albescent with hemorrhages zones and predominantly hard, the rest of the breast being extremely reduced in comparison with the volume of the tumour itself.

Whitishness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being whitish or somewhat white.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At necropsy, small whitish foci were found randomly distributed on the liver surface.
  • (2) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
  • (3) A whitish and hard tumor, 10 cm in maximum diameter, without any cirrhotic features was noted in the resected liver.
  • (4) However, no report to date has been made on the presence of H. pylori in the whitish exudate of peptic ulcers.
  • (5) The fungus could be histologically verified from a whitish yellow thick deposits on the lens in the anterior chamber after enucleation of the eye.
  • (6) In 52 infertile patients, laparoscopy demonstrated enlarged ovaries (maximum diameter 3.5 to 5 cm) with a smooth whitish surface and no mature follicles, corpora lutea, or other cysts.
  • (7) The patient initially responded to topical steroids, but developed a whitish capsular plaque through to represent possible Propionibacterium acnes endophthalmitis.
  • (8) Laparotomy revealed a firm, granular, whitish mass involving the pancreas.
  • (9) Physical examination was unremarkable except that whitish fluid could be expressed from both breasts.
  • (10) In patients with this disturbance, the retinal opacification and the visual disturbance are transient, but the tiny depression in the retina with its whitish border is permanent.
  • (11) A dystrophy of the eye fundi was observed (whitish puncta of the macula); except for the "almond shaped eyes", there was no obvious dismorphism.
  • (12) On endoscopy, the colour of oesophageal mucosa was normal in 28 and whitish pale in 2 cases.
  • (13) The tumor is elevated and characterized by a central punched-out area filled with amorphous whitish material.
  • (14) The lesions produced with a power of 200 mW were characterized by small whitish spots surrounded by grayish rings and retinochoroidal adhesions were produced by proliferated cells.
  • (15) Colonies of the mutant grown at room temperature did not show the whitish cotton-like morphology typical of the mycelial form of the parental strain.
  • (16) Of all sites studied by the staining method, H. pylori was detected at the highest frequency in the whitish exudate.
  • (17) It appeared as a uniform and smooth whitish layer with a thickness proportional to the duration of placement.
  • (18) The signs of his disease were exsudative retinal detachment with shifting fluid, rip of the retinal pigmentepithelium and a mass of whitish-yellowish subretinal protein.
  • (19) During laparotomy the liver was enlarged, hard, with multiple whitish nodules on its surgace but was otherwise normal.
  • (20) Three patients presented an unilateral whitish cloudiness of the corneal epithelium which reduced the vision considerably.

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