(n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
(n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
(n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
(n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
(n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
(n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(2) A trend toward a progressive increase in new collagen was noted over time in both the cloudy auto- and allografts.
(3) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
(4) Her earlier scheduled execution was called off at the last minute when the drug, pentobarbitol, appeared “cloudy”.
(5) The changes in the fundus of a 57-year-old patient (perimacular turbid retinal oedema, cloudy peripapillary exsudates and peripheral retinal hemorrhages) could not be interpreted satisfactorly on a clinical basis.
(6) Corrections officials told reporters about 11pm that night that they were postponing the execution “out of an abundance of caution” because the lethal injection drug appeared “cloudy”.
(7) Each bubble was covered by an osmiophilic non-homogeneous coat of cloudy and flocculent material, native to its specific locality.
(8) Extreme dilatation of collecting ducts and convoluted tubules with epithelial degenerative changes of cloudy swelling, hydropic degeneration and separation from the basement membrane were principal changes in the kidney.
(9) There was 600 cc of slightly cloudy and bloody peritoneal fluid.
(10) These early atherosclerotic lesions included a localized cloudy thickening with pallor, slight elevation, a non-fibrotic lesion and gray-white or yellowish-white, firm, elevated fibrous plaques.
(11) The assays can be performed manually or, with much greater precision, on an 8-channel coagulation meter of new design in which end points are recorded automatically and depend on an abrupt clearing of agitated cloudy suspensions.
(12) Things didn't get better – cloudy skies for the first day, the car showed its worst temperament and the phone box I was due to call from to get my results (no mobiles then) didn't work.
(13) Cloudy, white urine may be due to urine infections, harmless phosphate crystals, or possibly sexually transmitted infections.
(14) In many episodes, there is a strong association with acute enterocolitis, which may precede the onset of cloudy dialysate by many days.
(15) North Star recommends visitors avoid October, November and December though, when it is usually cloudy.
(16) Follicles also were classified as clear or cloudy; cloudy was associated with flocculent material in the follicular fluid or with an indistinct follicular wall.
(17) Snakes in group 2 had cloudy swelling of the proximal tubules at 2 and 4 weeks after the gentamicin was administered.
(18) But while Christie’s career has survived that storm, Perry’s prospects look cloudy.
(19) In eyes with retinal detachment with cloudy media and severe vitreous traction, combined scleral buckling and vitrectomy may be necessary.
(20) Yet the Brazilians who were photographed unleashing their sorrow on a cloudy, darkening evening, in scenes of anguish from Estádio Mineirão to Copacabana beach, were not mourning a massacre, atrocity or anything else that might seem to justify such infinite sadness.
Nebulous
Definition:
(a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
(2) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(3) To test the hypothesis that nebulized magnesium sulfate reverses methacholine-induced bronchospasm in asthmatic patients.
(4) Ten patients had no abnormality associated with isoproterenol hydrochloride or placebo nebulizations.
(5) It was concluded that administration of nebulized terbutaline, at a dose of 5 mg, was both safe and effective in treating acute asthma, and may be used as the first line measure in treating acute asthma in children.
(6) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(7) The airway responses to histamine, exercise and ultrasonically nebulized hypertonic saline have been compared in ten asthmatic patients.
(8) Finally, the removal of the preservatives EDTA and benzylchonium chloride from Atrovent nebulizer solution has removed the risk of paradoxical bronchoconstriction occurring.
(9) The antibacterial potential of copper mesh in heated nebulizers was evaluated by simulating clnical usage in the laboratory and comparing the relationship between the copper levels achieved in nebulizer water and the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa organisms.
(10) Two radiopharmaceuticals, 99mTc-DTPA (D) and 99mTc-rhenium sulfur (R), were evaluated with a nebulizer delivering submicronic particles.
(11) No significant differences were found between the two solutions at any time after nebulization in minimum and maximum changes from baseline value or in the areas under the lung function time curves.
(12) The acute effect on lung function of nebulized salbutamol and saline (placebo) has been investigated in preterm infants at follow-up.
(13) Each subject was challenged through a nasal mask connected to nebulizer filled with house dust.
(14) A solution of hypertonic (7 percent) saline was nebulized.
(15) In our patients with uncomplicated chronic obstructive lung disease, nebulization of adrenergic bronchodilators seemed an infrequent cause of cardiac arrhythmias.
(16) We studied the frequency of malfunction, variability in rate of nebulization, and effect of this variability on aerosol particle size of eight disposable jet nebulizer models produced by six manufacturers.
(17) For DVT prophylaxis following abdominal surgery a single application of nebulized heparin and long acting anabolic steroid is as effective as conventional low-dose subcutaneous heparin administration, but gives less haemorrhagic complications.
(18) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
(19) Therefore, the inferior response to albuterol administered by ultrasonic nebulizer was at least in part due to the superimposed broncho-constriction occurring with ultrasonically administered saline solution.
(20) One-hundred nebulizer trials were performed in 98 adult patients with chronic airflow limitation who had remained symptomatic despite regular use of bronchodilators by metered dose or dry powder inhalation.