(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.
Woolly
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
(a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
(a.) Clothed with wool.
(a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
(3) Our physiologic, clinical and pathologic studies suggest that woolly monkeys develop hypertension spontaneously and could be a useful model for the study of human hypertension.
(4) The binding protein from Rauscher and woolly monkey type-C viruses was the fastest migrating of the virion proteins in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and thus is designated p10 according to previous convention although our estimates of molecular weight were 8-9,000 daltons.
(5) However, the sarcoma virus genome could be rescued from these NF cells by co-cultivation with cells carrying "helper" Kirsten mouse leukemia virus or Woolly Monkey leukemia virus.
(6) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
(7) Electron microscope and gel electrophoresis studies show that the high-molecular-weight (50 to 70S) RNA extract from Friend virus (FV) is a dimer with the same basic structure previously observed for the RNAs from RD-114 virus, baboon virus, and woolly monkey virus.
(8) Cell lines transformed by woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WSV) in the absence of infectious virus production were analyzed for the expression of woolly monkey helper viral p30, p12, and gp70 antigens.
(9) Whereas mouse gs antigen was clearly detectable in tissue culture cells of several mouse strains, the respective gs antigens of rat, cat, Chinese hamster, woolly monkey, and gibbon ape were not detectable in cells of those species, using assays of comparable sensitivity.
(10) Her time among the Jaeger rails showed her that while customers (like those at M&S) tended to be well into middle age, that didn't mean they wanted elasticated waists and sensible woollies.
(11) This study describes the differential distribution of enkephalin-positive woolly fibers and acetylcholinesterase staining on adjacent sections in both the monkey and human basal forebrain area in an attempt to define the relationship between the basal ganglia and the basal nucleus of Meynert.
(12) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
(13) Acquired progressive kinking of hair is an entity distinct from woolly hair in its onset at or after puberty, predominant involvement of frontal, temporal, and vertex regions of the scalp as well as the supra-auricular and postauricular margins, and a tendency for affected hairs to resemble pubic hair both in texture and color.
(14) So far, approximately 48 patients with woolly hair nevus have been described in the world literature.
(15) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
(16) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
(17) As in the woolly animal, vasomotor responses were disorganized, although there was a tendency towards vasodilation.4.
(18) The degradation and excretion of 2-14C-uric acid were examined in three adult woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothrichia) to determine the basis for the relatively high serum and urinary uric acid concentrations previously reported in this species.
(19) Murine (Rauscher, Ki-MuLV, AT-124 and two other xenotropic viruses), feline, RD-114 and Simian (woolly monkey and baboon) type-C viruses possessed the ability to rescue the sarcoma genome from NP cells but not AKR leukemia virus.
(20) Muscle spindles were sought in peri-auricular muscles of several primate species (rhesus monkey, woolly monkey, and baboon).