What's the difference between blackish and brackish?

Blackish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat black.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (2) The blackish or greyish sputum suggests cavitation of conglomerated masses; the acinar shadows in gravity dependent areas together with cavitary pneumoconiosis, make us suspect an insufficiency of bronchial clearing.
  • (3) 12 patients showed isolated mucosal inflammation, 5 blackish deposits (of impacted soot) and blisters in 6 (with shreds of mucosa hanging loose); the endoscopy was normal in 18; 66% of those with blisters (4 cases out of 6) and 40% with blackened mucosa (2 cases out of 5) were observed in burns from fires.
  • (4) All amalgam samples exhibit a gradual loss of the surface luster with blackish discoloration and pitting after a long exposure period to the medium.
  • (5) With the combined method it is possible to stain alpha-D-glycosyl and alpha-D-mannosyl residues brown and 1,2-glycol groups of neutral complex carbohydrates blackish purple.
  • (6) These spots are perhaps better called "cafe-sans-lait" or blackish-brown spots in the African patient.
  • (7) Amalgam accidentally implanted in the oral mucosa results in amalgam tattoos which are flat lesions of bluish, blackish or slate grey color.
  • (8) This blackish tumour measuring 3 cm in diameter and situated 8 cm from the anal margin was treated by surgical excision.
  • (9) On gross inspection, 70% of lungs of combined therapy group showed signs of congestion, 10% edematous changes and 20% blackish mottling.
  • (10) Lines of huge mottled blackish slugs came through gaps in the ceiling and made their way down the walls.
  • (11) The six dark-green-blackish faceted calculi contained by the gall bladder appear to be formed of biliary pigment and the consequence of repeated inflammatory hemolytic episodes in an immunodeficient infant.
  • (12) The most characteristic findings of the autopsy were: a blackish-green pigmentation at macroscopic examination; pulmonary edema, steatosis, intrahepatic cholestasis and renal tubular necrosis at microscopic examination.
  • (13) In the tissues tested, protein-bound amino groups were visualized by distinct brownish or blackish reaction products.
  • (14) After several days of post-chemotherapy aplasia a peritoneal, cutaneous (blackish necrosis), then pleuropulmonary involvement occurred.
  • (15) Updated at 11.46am GMT 11.08am GMT This morning's blackish smoke will have come as a bit of a disappointment to a German couple Lizzy Davies was speaking to in the Vatican minutes before; they were on their last day's holiday in Rome and were hoping against hope for a new pope to see them off.
  • (16) Chorioretinal atrophy with blackish pigment spots developed in the reattached retina a long time after surgery and caused defects in the visual fields.
  • (17) The 18 patients without endobronchial lesions and 12 patients with only mucosal inflammation did not develop respiratory complications; 5 patients presenting with blackish deposits later develop complications and 4 out of 6 patients presenting with extensive blistering died from these respiratory complications.
  • (18) Blackish material over the abscess cavity revealed the fungal elements.
  • (19) No single light can match the appearance of the patch because no light in isolation appears blackish; blackness is induced by a second stimulus.
  • (20) The overall weight was 260 g. The twisted spleen was blackish in colour, filled with blood and weighed 100 g. Histopathologically, no particular finding was observed.

Brackish


Definition:

  • (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cestode infections include diphyllobothriasis transmitted by both fresh water fish and fish from brackish waters.
  • (2) This paper intends to be a contribution to the study of the reproduction of the Rivulus cylindraceus, living in brackish waters of canals close to the coasts.
  • (3) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
  • (4) Rainbow trout held in brackish water (15 parts per thousand) were starved or fed different amounts of food.
  • (5) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
  • (6) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
  • (7) farauti 1 which was often found breeding within 100 m of the sea in either brackish or freshwater habitats.
  • (8) The incidence of some of these infections could be lowered if people took care to avoid eating undercooked seafood, swimming in brackish water, or sustaining lacerations in a marine environment.
  • (9) Vibrio cholerae, an autochthonous member of brackish water and estuarine bacterial communities, also attaches to crustacea, a significant factor in multiplication and survival of V. cholerae in nature.
  • (10) An outbreak of poisoning from ingestion of purple clam (Hiatula diphos), obtained from a brackish fish-culture pond, occurred in southern Taiwan in early January 1986.
  • (11) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
  • (12) Larvae of the other 2 species were not found in brackish water which accords with previous laboratory observations of their lower salinity tolerance.
  • (13) and fecal coliforms in a cove receiving sewage treatment effluent and draining into a brackish lagoon were studied for 34 months with sampling at six stations.
  • (14) The meals consisted of Finnish freshwater fish (87%) (vendace, pike, perch and rainbow trout) and brackish water fish (13%) (Baltic herring) that provided about 1 g of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids per day (0.25 g eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.55 g docosahexaenoic acid).
  • (15) With the river, plain and brackish pools there was abundant food including prey animals, shellfish and edible plants.
  • (16) Rediae of 2 size groups were present in the digestive gland of the brackish-water snail, Cerithidea californica.
  • (17) Fresh water was running out, and the share of brackish water was rising.
  • (18) Its larvae, living in brackish waters of coastal lagoons, can devour those of Ceratopogonidae and at least young stages of those of Mosquitoes whose some halophilic species are dangerous vectors of diseases.
  • (19) On this occasion, this species was found in a pound of brackish water and abundant vegetation, known as La Redonda, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Avila.
  • (20) In general, young fish tested in fresh water were more sensitive to the individual elements and the two mixtures than were advanced fry tested in brackish water.

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