What's the difference between blackish and darkness?

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.

Darkness


Definition:

  • (n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
  • (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.
  • (n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
  • (n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
  • (n.) A state of distress or trouble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
  • (3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
  • (4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
  • (5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
  • (6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
  • (8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
  • (9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
  • (10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
  • (11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
  • (12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
  • (13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
  • (14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
  • (15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
  • (16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
  • (17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
  • (18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
  • (19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
  • (20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.

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