(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.
Opalescent
Definition:
(a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among both exposed and non-exposed aged over 45, there were no significant differences with regard to the characteristics of lens opacities--prevalence (19 in the 21 exposed; 10 in the 16 non-exposed), distribution of the location, and importance and type (opalescence or discontinuous opacities).
(2) The severity of nuclear opalescence (NO), cortical (C) and posterior subcapular cataract (P) was graded in a masked fashion using the LOCS II standards.
(3) The rate of this reaction can be estimated roughly from the initial rate (Vo) of the accompanying turbidity increase ("super-opalescence") of the acto-S-1 solution.
(4) This may indicate that there is considerable variation in inheritance patterns for hereditary opalescent dentine and that this trait does not always exhibit 100 percent penetrance.
(5) Furthermore, selenite induced the gradual development of opalescence and the oxidation of sulfhydryl in the lens protein solution.
(6) At pH 1-7 the alpha-particles dissociated into their constituent beta-particles with a consequent decrease in the opalescence of the solution.
(7) A family is described in which two females are more severely affected by hereditary opalescent dentine than the males.
(8) Prednisolone-induced aggregates result in an opalescence in the crystallins solution which is reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol.
(9) Residual Triton X-100 was removed from the opalescent vesicle suspension by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and subsequent dialysis.
(10) Shortcomings in previous attempts have been corrected by objectively aligning a "blind" eye with the center of a translucent opalescent screen.
(11) A potential of 100 V was applied for 12 hours, then raised to 200 V for another 12 hours, and finally to 300 V until opalescence appeared at the bottom of the tube.
(12) Colonies of C. perfringens on LLA had typical opalescent zones, a distinctive feature that can aid in presumptive identification.
(13) The presence of the regulatory light chain did not affect hyper-opalescence (or super-opalescence), since there were no significant differences between papain S-1 and chymotryptic S-1 with respect to these phenomena.
(14) We conclude that the most likely mechanism responsible for the zones is a light-scattering effect caused by antibodies attached to the viral surface and that the quality of the opalescence to some extent seems to be dependent on the Fc-fragment.
(15) High activity of MPO was found for retina and lens of healthy men and elderly people with lens opalescence.
(16) The oviposition-stimulating factor was localized in the opalescent gland of the male accessory gland and was transferred to the female via the spermatophore during copulation.
(17) Adjacent filaments in the bundles had a distance of approximately 180 A. Hyper-opalescence occurred at r approximately equal to 1 when KCOOCH3 was used instead of KCl.
(18) Impairment of catalytic efficiency can only be documented in opalescent test solutions in which the insecticides are present in excess of their solubility limit.
(19) We have found that after the initial rise in scattering, there is a further gradual increase in scattering (we call it "super-opalescence").
(20) A fraction possibly corresponding to VHDL (very high density lipoproteins, 77% protein, 23% lipid) was also detected but appeared contaminated by a protein-rich opalescent material.