What's the difference between bluish and blush?

Bluish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When pouring liquid nitrogen over the spots, a very intense bluish-white fluorescence followed by a long-lasting greenish phosphorescence is observed.
  • (2) Immediately after birth a 1 cm soft, bluish mass of the right thenar eminence was clinically diagnosed as a hemangioma.
  • (3) They were bright blue, light blue, bluish green and yellow colors of fluorescence respectively.
  • (4) All lesions were sharply delineated, started with red to purple discoloration and then turned to bluish-black indicating gangrene.
  • (5) The small vessels were thickened with the deposition of homogeneous bluish pink material.
  • (6) A full-term black boy had a 2- to 3-cm, round, bluish mass on his right lower eye-lid at birth, later diagnosed as rhabdomyosarcoma.
  • (7) Pyoderma gangrenosum cannot be viewed simply as "an ulcer with undermined bluish borders," since this description recognizes only one stage of the evolving process.
  • (8) The expression of two epitopes on the same cellular constituent is outlined by the coappearance of both enzyme activities as a bluish-purple colour.
  • (9) During the third week of life, bluish-red subcutaneous nodules were noticed.
  • (10) The typical case of ACA starts with a limited inflammatory lesion, which is gradually replaced by atrophy and the skin shows a bluish, red discoloration.
  • (11) However, when spotting the alkaline solutions on filter paper and examining the spots under U.V., strong bluish-white fluorescence is obtained.
  • (12) An unusual bluish discolouration of the nose was noticed in a woman 9 months after she had begun treatment with a coronary vasodilator, amiodarone hydrochloride.
  • (13) In contrast, nonaliased bluish jets, suggesting laminar flow away from the transducer, were seen in echocardiograms from 27 patients in Group 2.
  • (14) Observations showed that the female pronucleus, eccentrically placed, gives a bright green-bluish fluorescence whereas chromatin of sperm heads shows different stages of decondensation and also a bright fluorescence.
  • (15) In this manner, the red acidophilic granules are in sharp contrast to the lipofuscin deposits stained in a bluish shade.
  • (16) At 18 months she presented with a bluish skin pigmentation, hepatosplenomegaly, generalised lymphadenopathy and non-responsive fever.
  • (17) We conclude that (1) intestinal perforation can occur in the absence of NEC; (2) bluish discoloration of the abdomen is the most reliable clinical finding; and (3) perforation may be associated with coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection.
  • (18) Yeast vegetative cells were stained reddish purple, but zygotic asci were bluish.
  • (19) Symmetrical lividity (SL) was the term coined by Pernet in 1925 for symmetrical, bluish-red plaques on the soles of the feet, accompanied by hyperhidrosis and not corresponding to areas of pressure or patterns of innervation.
  • (20) A 66-year-old pensioner developed distinct, erythematosquamous and keratonic lesions on the hands and feet within 2 months, and also a progressive red-bluish discoloration of the whole integument.

Blush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
  • (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
  • (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
  • (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
  • (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiographic aspect settle them to established correlation between functional and non functional tumors: the formers characteristic "blush", agreeding in fact with the initial phase of the growth, increase in a monstruous "pseudoangiomatous" aspect in the laters.
  • (2) Angiography of the internal carotid artery was found useful in demonstrating vascular displacements and tumor blush.
  • (3) However, almost anything can be used to blush water into wine: fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, teabags – whatever you think might taste good.
  • (4) It is concluded that the cervical sympathetic outflow is the main pathway for thermoregulatory flushing and emotional blushing and that diminution or absence of such vasodilator reactions is a usual component of Horner's syndrome unless the responsible lesion is confined to the first thoracic root.
  • (5) While Sergio Agüero has been known to leave it even later before sparing Manchester City’s blushes in the past, he could hardly have picked a better time to offer a reminder of the devastating qualities that make him the most potent striker in the Premier League when his troublesome hamstrings are not playing up.
  • (6) If the diagnosis is still unclear, selective angiography may reveal the tumor blush typical of osteoid osteoma.
  • (7) James focused a the "poor man's thermography"--a technique involving cooling of the breast by ethyl chloride sprayed onto a sponge and observing for a "blush" during recovery.
  • (8) In 58 patients with no blush, 48 showed a final diagnosis of malignant breast disease.
  • (9) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
  • (10) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (11) Parents of children in the age range 3 to 12 years were asked about their children's embarrassment and blushing during the previous six months.
  • (12) Early venous filling and vascular blush have been known for a long time with cerebral inflammatory disease, but venous drainage through irregular veins is unusual.
  • (13) An angiogram done in one patient showed a capillary blush and early cortical draining veins in the corresponding area.
  • (14) The angiographic phase of the bone scan demonstrated a well-defined radionuclide blush within the pelvis just cephalad to the urinary bladder with persistent hyperemia noted in the blood-pool image.
  • (15) This model posits that people blush when they experience undesired social attention.
  • (16) Both absolute and proportional increases were consistent with the view that the greater vascular capacitance in the visible, superficial cutaneous vasculature in the blush area accounts for the limited distribution of flushing in response to a systemic stimulus.
  • (17) Steven Wood, associate in social housing litigation at Coffin Mew LLP "The housing strategy for England is hailed as 'radical and unashamedly ambitious' but at first blush appears to predominantly be a recycling of ideas that are already out to consultation or at various stages of being enacted by changes in the law.
  • (18) Left vertebral angiography demonstrated a faint tumor blush which was confirmed to be fed by the medial and the lateral posterior choroidal and the thalamo-perforating arteries bilaterally.
  • (19) As well as that season’s first, he also saved Flanagan’s blushes there; the young full-back had conceded a needless corner with a loose cushioned header sent in the vague direction of his keeper.
  • (20) Only blushing is an expression of a reaction behaviour characteristic of human beings only.