(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.
Opaque
Definition:
(a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
(a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
(n.) That which is opaque; opacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(2) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(3) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(4) Type II pigment is extremely electron-opaque after staining with heavy metals to the extent that they appear practically amorphous.
(5) In conclusion, the use of metoclopramide in the postoperative period did not result in a quicker return of propulsive motility in the right or left colon as judged by the radio-opaque markers and serial abdominal radiographs.
(6) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(7) At that time, the universe underwent a crucial change: it went from being opaque to transparent.
(8) Our data confirm the poorer short-term orientation performance of jaundiced infants treated with phototherapy but do not indicate that covering the eyes with an opaque screen improves behavioral organization.
(9) All patients had at least one laparotomy, at which time a biopsy was obtained, radio-opaque clips were placed to define the extent of the gross tumor, and usually some form of bypass procedure was performed.
(10) Two types are present, a crystalline (clear) form and a white, opaque form with pigmentation resulting from a diene rubber.
(11) In two of these cases, pathologic findings included opaque ciliary body cysts, a ciliochoroidal effusion, retinal microaneurysms and hemorrhages, and detachment of both the sensory retina and the retinal pigment epithelium.
(12) The WF-1 are originally arranged around the WF-2, as small electron opaque granules making a dark ring, to move towards the periphery of the macrogamete body with maturation.
(13) Five fish with lateral lines cut at the opercula were unable to school when wearing opaque eye covers.
(14) A combined morphological, autoradiographic, and cytochemical study at the electron microscope level has been directed towards the formation of electron-opaque granules of cultured macrophages.
(15) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
(16) On lecithin agar, interpretation was easier, phospholipase A was detectable, and opaque zones were visible 1 or 2 days earlier than on egg yolk agar.
(17) New light-curable adhesive opaque resins were prepared using 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride (4-META), triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), di (methacryloxyethyl) trimethylhexamethylene diurethane (UDMA) and titanium dioxide.
(18) In particular, most prototrophic strains obtained from patients with localized infection had proteins I with molecular weights varying from 35,000 to 38,000 daltons and gave predominantly opaque colonies.
(19) Resulting specimens yield an excellent view of the skeletal system and the injected vascular system without obstruction by opaque tissues or disruption by physical removal of connective tissue.
(20) Follicles greater than or equal to 5 mm in diameter were classified as clear (n=68) or opaque (n=72) based on their surface appearance.