What's the difference between filmy and gauzy?

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.

Gauzy


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
  • (2) A gauzy light filters down through high streaks of cirrus and ranks of towering cumulus look like smoke thrown up over the fells from a giant cannon salvo.
  • (3) Gauzy images of smiling worshippers embracing at a mosque cut to children passing out sweets to break the Ramadan fast.
  • (4) The film was commissioned for the charity's 50th anniversary, and it's easy to imagine what they might have been expecting: a gauzy portrait, light on analysis, strong on praise.
  • (5) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
  • (6) Today, it is one of the most recognizable symbols of the university, the part of campus that those watching Duke basketball are most likely to see in gauzy packages on TV.
  • (7) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.
  • (8) Yet on Tuesday, the air was a gauzy white, registering as “ very unhealthy ” on the US embassy’s air quality scale – a harsh reminder of the city’s pollution, despite the government’s best efforts to hide it.
  • (9) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
  • (10) Even in the springtime, when the air is far better than in the filthy, choking winters , the haze is visible night and day, shimmering in the headlights of cars and blurring buildings and bridges behind a gauzy grey curtain.
  • (11) The simple reason is that the distance between the soft, gauzy feel good aura around breast cancer awareness campaigns and actually going through breast cancer is so very great.
  • (12) But I find when I watch sex scenes in films, it's like ho-hum or it's flapping curtains and gauzy pictures, which is kind of boring.'
  • (13) The squadron of seven tween (possibly Mean) girls seated directly behind me offered a good barometer of the audience’s emotional temperature – sighing, sniffing, whispering “Oh my God he is sooooo cute!” upon seeing Ansel Elgort and “Even the credits are making me cry!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s nothing like the promise of early death to make 500 handkerchiefs appear all at once, and Fault fits snugly into an ancient Hollywood tradition whereby the loveliest actresses of their eras are asked to die gracefully of mysterious, imprecisely diagnosed ailments that leave no mark on their sufferers bar a gauzy, luminescent haze confected by the cinematographer and his lighting men.
  • (14) Other indie credentials: How To Dress Well features on her track Can I , and Take Me There, from her latest mixtape Boss Up, is a hazy, gauzy treat that features a Balam Acab sample .
  • (15) The era was portrayed with a slick, gauzy beauty in Tom Ford's film A Single Man , and the TV drama Mad Men has beamed gorgeous images of the period into our homes for four years now.
  • (16) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
  • (17) Disdain for homosexuals is buried beneath the usual gauzy rhetoric about love, respect and justice.

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