(n.) The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.
Example Sentences:
(1) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(2) Humans treated with large doses of choline smell "fishy" (the odor of TMA).
(3) We conclude that uremic breath reflects the systemic accumulation of potentially toxic volatile metabolites, among which dimethylamine and trimethylamine have been positively identified and correlated with the classic fishy odor.
(4) In a simple randomized trial of 90 cases (30 cases in each group) with demonstrated clinical bacterial vaginosis on the presence of 3 of 5 of the following signs: (1) Characteristic thin homogenous discharge; (2) vaginal pH greater than 4.5; (3) release of a fishy amine odor from vaginal fluid mixed with 10% KOH; (4) presence of clue cells (usually representing at least 20% of vaginal epithelial cells); and (5) vaginal fluid contains few or no lactobacilli.
(5) It is properly diagnosed using three of the four following criteria: (1) presence of homogenous, thin, milklike vaginal discharge; (2) vaginal pH > 4.5; (3) fishy odor on alkalinization of the vaginal secretions; and (4) presence of clue cells on microscopic examination of vaginal secretions.
(6) On good days friends would comment on the fishy smell; other days, when the aroma was likened to sperm, were more bleak.
(7) He’s not credible at all.” One of the Lucas charges was a “fishy” September 2010 trip to India, where he speculates Snowden may have met unspecified Russians or intermediaries, and attended a hacking course.
(8) No serious side effects were noted other than a "fishy aftertaste."
(9) It is concluded that trimethylamine is the primary cause of the fishy odor associated with bacterial vaginosis.
(10) Bacterial vaginosis can be reliably diagnosed through clinical indicators such as clue cells on wet preparation of vaginal discharge, an increased pH of vaginal discharge, a fishy, amine odor emitted when a sample of vaginal discharge is placed in potassium hydroxide, and cultures that isolate G. vaginalis.
(11) Illustration: David Foldvari There's something fishy about Google's motto, "Don't be evil."
(12) So large cuttlefish and octopus are happiest when slow-roasted or stewed – and if that involves red wine and hard herbs, the result is tender, robust and meaty all at once: a knockout ragout with a fishy twist.
(13) The skins lying on the ground give off a powerful fishy smell.
(14) Besides isolation of the organism by culture, two alternative diagnostic procedures have been claimed to be useful: the investigation of "clue cells" in clinical specimens and the amine volatilization test or fishy odor perception in genital secretions.
(15) Samples were collected from 11 women with a vaginal discharge having a fishy odor and from 10 women with no detectable odor.
(16) A fishy odor, present in bacterial vaginosis, was also found in almost half of the T. vaginalis cases.
(17) But he also hinted the duke’s office should cease its intermediary role on Sunninghill saying: “I think I should now deal direct with the incoming purchasers on any detail relating to the site.” The crown estate said that no deal on any London properties went through as a result of the intervention, but Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the duke’s role was “unacceptable” and “looks very fishy”.
(18) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
(19) The crickets had a slightly fishy aftertaste and the buffalo worms a metallic one.
(20) A patient complaining of fishy smelling urine and perspiration appeared for evaluation.
Fishy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
(a.) Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
Example Sentences:
(1) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(2) Humans treated with large doses of choline smell "fishy" (the odor of TMA).
(3) We conclude that uremic breath reflects the systemic accumulation of potentially toxic volatile metabolites, among which dimethylamine and trimethylamine have been positively identified and correlated with the classic fishy odor.
(4) In a simple randomized trial of 90 cases (30 cases in each group) with demonstrated clinical bacterial vaginosis on the presence of 3 of 5 of the following signs: (1) Characteristic thin homogenous discharge; (2) vaginal pH greater than 4.5; (3) release of a fishy amine odor from vaginal fluid mixed with 10% KOH; (4) presence of clue cells (usually representing at least 20% of vaginal epithelial cells); and (5) vaginal fluid contains few or no lactobacilli.
(5) It is properly diagnosed using three of the four following criteria: (1) presence of homogenous, thin, milklike vaginal discharge; (2) vaginal pH > 4.5; (3) fishy odor on alkalinization of the vaginal secretions; and (4) presence of clue cells on microscopic examination of vaginal secretions.
(6) On good days friends would comment on the fishy smell; other days, when the aroma was likened to sperm, were more bleak.
(7) He’s not credible at all.” One of the Lucas charges was a “fishy” September 2010 trip to India, where he speculates Snowden may have met unspecified Russians or intermediaries, and attended a hacking course.
(8) No serious side effects were noted other than a "fishy aftertaste."
(9) It is concluded that trimethylamine is the primary cause of the fishy odor associated with bacterial vaginosis.
(10) Bacterial vaginosis can be reliably diagnosed through clinical indicators such as clue cells on wet preparation of vaginal discharge, an increased pH of vaginal discharge, a fishy, amine odor emitted when a sample of vaginal discharge is placed in potassium hydroxide, and cultures that isolate G. vaginalis.
(11) Illustration: David Foldvari There's something fishy about Google's motto, "Don't be evil."
(12) So large cuttlefish and octopus are happiest when slow-roasted or stewed – and if that involves red wine and hard herbs, the result is tender, robust and meaty all at once: a knockout ragout with a fishy twist.
(13) The skins lying on the ground give off a powerful fishy smell.
(14) Besides isolation of the organism by culture, two alternative diagnostic procedures have been claimed to be useful: the investigation of "clue cells" in clinical specimens and the amine volatilization test or fishy odor perception in genital secretions.
(15) Samples were collected from 11 women with a vaginal discharge having a fishy odor and from 10 women with no detectable odor.
(16) A fishy odor, present in bacterial vaginosis, was also found in almost half of the T. vaginalis cases.
(17) But he also hinted the duke’s office should cease its intermediary role on Sunninghill saying: “I think I should now deal direct with the incoming purchasers on any detail relating to the site.” The crown estate said that no deal on any London properties went through as a result of the intervention, but Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the duke’s role was “unacceptable” and “looks very fishy”.
(18) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
(19) The crickets had a slightly fishy aftertaste and the buffalo worms a metallic one.
(20) A patient complaining of fishy smelling urine and perspiration appeared for evaluation.