What's the difference between diaphanous and filmy?

Diaphanous


Definition:

  • (a.) Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inherent weakness of the diaphanous portion of the posterior lens capsule contributed to disruption of the normal lamellar arrangement of the lens fibers resulting in cataractous changes.
  • (2) After clearing and removal of the cuticle, the bracts are bleached, washed, dehydrated, and if studied by light microscopy, stained in 2% chlorazol black E and mounted in Diaphane; or, if studied by scanning electron microscopy, dried by the critical-point method and either left uncoated or coated with a film of various conductive metals.
  • (3) Diaphanoscopic postmortal examination of blunt impact injuries to the head sometimes revealed non-diaphanous regions deriving from intraossary haematomata.
  • (4) The rod appears as a diaphanous transparent object, slightly tinted to the same colour as the dots.
  • (5) Those photographs from Greece last week sent me straight round to the chief site of that abuse, the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum , where the Parthenon marbles are displayed and there are as many diaphanously clothed virgins as you would wish to clap eyes on.
  • (6) There were no reproductions, prints were precious few and could scarcely convey his mysterious and diaphanous style, so that the only way a Velázquez could be kept in mind was through the fantastic vagaries of memory.
  • (7) The Diaphane-program instituted under the authority of the French Society of Nephrology has been steadily expanding since 1972.
  • (8) The Authors describe a new technique of endodontic obturation using thermoplasticized guttapercha; the first results, studied with a diaphanic method, suggest that this technique gives a full obturation of endodontic system.
  • (9) In another 12 flaps vascularization was studied by means of diaphanization.
  • (10) The authors studied 52 organs, among 15 were taken from human beings and 37 from dogs, with the aim of knowing theirs weight and volume modifications after diaphanization.
  • (11) The sixth report of the "Diaphane Dialyse Informatique" Program concerns 2,518 adult patients (age 15 and over) treated by chronic hemodialysis or hemofiltration in 33 French dialysis centres between June 1972 and December 1978.
  • (12) In another 16 flaps, vascularization was studied by means of "diaphanization" (ie, making the tissue transparent or diaphenous in nature).
  • (13) His muscles ripple beneath the diaphanous folds of the toga.
  • (14) The authors, use histology and diaphanization after the injection of Micropaque 25% with gelatin 10% in 35 rabbits, 25 female and 10 male, with race, weight and age variable, to show some aspects of the thyroid follicles microvascularization.
  • (15) Data of the DIAPHANE Dialyse-Informatique system of the Society of Nephrology have been collected by patients just on a home dialysis program after training in the hemodialysis Unit of the Hospital of Montreuil.
  • (16) Two studies using diaphanization have displayed the diaphragmatic anastomoses.
  • (17) That is, flirty, feminine shapes, diaphanous textures (silk and organza) and hero swimwear.
  • (18) The muscle originates from the medial border of the levator palpebrae superioris and has a diaphanous insertion on the fascia in the region of the trochlea and other nearby structures.
  • (19) This may include the presence of diaphanous serous-filled vascular channels, a connective tissue stroma with lymphorrhages, features of old hemorrhage, dysplastic vessels, and random smooth muscle bundles.
  • (20) Using the "Diaphane" computed medical record system enables multicentric statistical studies to be conducted.

Filmy


Definition:

  • (a.) Composed of film or films.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the methylprednisolone group, 14 dogs had no adhesions; one had filmy adhesions; and none had dense patchy or dense diffuse adhesions.
  • (2) According to the birth rate and the rate of extrauterine gestation, microsurgery gives the best results in the correction of filmy adhesions, fimbrial phimosis and proximal tubal occlusion.
  • (3) The laparoscopic appearance of scattered yellowish-white nodules, approximately 1-5 mm in size, on the peritoneal surfaces, and filmy adhesions were suggestive of tuberculous peritonitis.
  • (4) The aim of this study was to develop a porous silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
  • (5) The adhesions were mostly filmy after laser treatment, as compared with thick adhesions in the conventional group.
  • (6) During a second inspection of the abdominal cavity-either by laparotomy (Cesarean section; 4 patients) or by repelviscopy (29 patients)-mainly avascular, filmy adhesions on one or both adnexae were found in 17 cases (52%).
  • (7) This procedure delineates a dark brown filmy structure in the respiratory parenchyma, which is very loosely attached to the alveoli and appears to be related to lung surfactant.
  • (8) The second-look evaluation of adhesion formation was not found to be consistent prior to the 7th postoperative day, since many filmy bands present prior to that time were not present later.
  • (9) In the control group, none were adhesion-free and none had filmy adhesions; three dogs had dense patchy adhesions and 12 had dense diffuse adhesions.
  • (10) Two patients were observed to have asymptomatic, diffuse, filmy white lesions involving large portions of the oral mucosa.
  • (11) Filmy adhesions were seen in 3 patients in the CO2 laser group.
  • (12) Purification of glutaraldehyde is provided by vacuum distillation with a rotational-filmy evaporator, and its concentration is determined using refractometer.
  • (13) Four patients had filmy adhesions, covering the tube near the incision site.
  • (14) Polygonal malignant epithelial cells present in sheets with loose or strong cellular cohesiveness and granular, vacuolated or filmy cytoplasm were the characteristic findings of this type of tumor.
  • (15) Seven of the eight 0.2 mm thick membranes caused filmy pericardial adhesions.
  • (16) Individual hyperplastic endocrine cells displayed granular, filmy, and ill-defined cytoplasm and round to oval hyperchromatic nuclei showing a finely granular chromatin pattern.
  • (17) These are inflated double-layer air-tight filmy chamber-like sheathes forming a slip-cover around injured limbs of the victims, or around their cervical vertebrae.
  • (18) One hundred and twenty-nine cases (95.5%) showed exudative type tuberculous peritonitis with variable amounts of ascites and filmy adhesions.
  • (19) The aim of the present study was to develop a porous, silastic tube with filmy wall acting as permanent artificial tendon.
  • (20) They are more effective on thin, filmy tissue than on fibrocartilage or articular surfaces.

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