(v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
(v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
(v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
(n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
(n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
(n.) A moral stain or blot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) One subject reported slight transient faintness and visual blurring after 20 mg of the drug.
(3) There is also a continued blurring of the lines between games and other entertainment media.
(4) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(5) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(6) The definition of the blurring of narrow beam rotation radiography is revived.
(7) Two principles have to be considered: 1. the image of a curved surface will only show the surface area where the rays form a tangent to the surface; 2. in tomography the blurring of the image increases with an increase of the tomographic angle and the distance of the object to the plane in focus.
(8) Presenting complaints included blurred vision, visual field scotoma, and a field defect.
(9) Back in Christchurch, as my day goes on, at least some of these intergenerational questions start to feel a little more blurred.
(10) We have been able to remove the rotational blur from each of the fibers in the unit cell using the procedures described by Carragher et al.
(11) The thresholds for both tasks increased linearly with decreasing resolution (increasing blur), for a constant ratio of the resolution parameter and the separation of the outer two blobs.
(12) A patient with recurrent weakness and blurring of consciousness associated with hyperkalaemia due to aldosterone deficiency is reported.
(13) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(14) The data indicate that target proximity will influence AR even when both blur and vergence cues have been stabilized.
(15) Determination of degree of blur is done by calculating a focusing measure for each point in each base image and a composite image is then constructed using only the unblurred regions from each base image.
(16) --Minimum power output of 100 mA at 25 kVp desirable to avoid movement blurring in contact grid work.
(17) The use of axial rather than planar blurring and intensifier camera filming rather than radiography does not reduce the clinical usefulness of the method.
(18) To determine the effect of optically induced blur on the visual field measured with high pass spatially filtered targets, 10 normal subjects had field examinations with 0 diopter + 1.00 diopter or + 2.00 diopter of overcorrection in the cyclopleged state.
(19) It is causing damage at every level and it needs to be addressed.” Smith said her desire to reach out to all audiences and blur the boundaries between the art forms had been a motivating factor in her taking on the role of guest director of this year’s Brighton arts festival, one of the biggest cultural events in the UK, now in its 49 th year.
(20) Part of the appeal for the authors of the course format described here is the blurring of that distinction.
Maculate
Definition:
(v.) To spot; to stain; to blur.
(a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of lesions were observed: red plaques, pityriasis versicolor (PV)-like macules and plane warts.
(2) The case also showed characteristic palmar melanotic macules.
(3) We report the clinical features, electrophysiologic findings, and dapsone and isoniazid excretion studies in three young people who ingested excessive amounts (2-4 times the prescribed dose) of dapsone for hypopigmented macules and who developed, subacutely, progressive motor neuropathy a few months later.
(4) Nodular lesions were found in three patients, who did not have macules.
(5) A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having unilateral multiple progradient pigmented macules and papules of the upper extremity and adjacent part of the back.
(6) The lesions developed as solitary, slowly extending, erythematous macules and plaques, usually occurring on the extremities or the shoulders in adolescents or adults.
(7) An asymptomatic macule or patch may be the first recognizable feature.
(8) We report a case of a 10-month-old male infant with GM1 type 1 gangliosidosis who also had hyperpigmented macules and patches.
(9) In this group, flat melanotic macules around the eyes were located on the opposite parts of the upper and lower eyelids.
(10) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(11) Histological examination using serial sections were performed on 47 cases and showed evidence of dermal melanocytosis in 40 cases (85%) consisting of 33 (70%) without clinically detectable macules and 7 (15%) with obvious pigmented macules.
(12) In some HIV-infected patients the cause of the macules might relate to the administration of zidovudine and antifungal or antibacterial drugs.
(13) The skin lesions that are often seen are hypopigmented circular macules, measuring approximately 0.5 cm in diameter.
(14) This disease, which affects children and teenagers, males as well as females, is characterized by pigmented macules 5-25 mm in diameter, affecting the neck, the trunk and the limbs.
(15) We found that the population and structure of melanocytes differ greatly depending on the coloration of the café-au-lait macules.
(16) Generalized discrete hypopigmented macules forming a camouflage pattern appeared on the skin of a man.
(17) A hypopigmented macule on her face along with neuroimaging studies suggested an inflammatory process.
(18) Photoactivated psoralens were studied in sixty cases of tuberculoid leprosy for the repigmentation of hypopigmented macules.
(19) This article describes the light and electron microscopic studies from a macule and the surrounding lightly hyperpigmented skin of a patient with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
(20) Pigmented macules and plaques in the oral cavity, representing the radial growth phase of tumors, often go unrecognized for months or years before tumor invasion.