(a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
(a.) Yielding milk.
(a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autopsy revealed massive milky ascites and a large mesenteric mass, which showed histologically perivascular concentric deposition of eosinophilic materials with mixture of residual follicles and scattered plasma cells.
(2) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
(3) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
(4) At night, the sky is hung with a million jewels, clouded only by the Milky Way.
(5) Despite the absence of germinative centres, the appearance of a great number of lymphoblasts and plasma cells in the milky spots provides the evidence of the active antibody production aimed at immunological protection of abdominal cavity.
(6) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(7) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
(8) The enigmatic patience of the sentences, the pedantic syntax, the peculiar antiquity of the diction, the strange recessed distance of the writing, in which everything seems milky and sub-aqueous, just beyond reach – all of this gives Sebald his particular flavour, so that sometimes it seems that we are reading not a particular writer but an emanation of literature.
(9) In addition, chance samples of handled foods, crude milk and milky fermented derivates (MFD) were studied.
(10) Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the milky spots using a panel of monoclonal antibodies, especially antibodies (ER-MP) that recognize macrophage precursor antigens.
(11) Thoracocentesis yielded a milky fluid with a high triglyceride level.
(12) Moreover, milky spots can firstly be a local source of potent immune effector cells i.e.
(13) In two cases, postmortem findings showed milky white, shiny, clotted lumps in the heart, with a fatty acid composition resembling that of fat emulsions.
(14) injection the labeled macrophages were found deeper in the milky spots.
(15) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(16) The milky spots contained also large lymphocytes and plasma cells.
(17) Photograph: Joel van Houdt for The Guardian "I wanted to make it as luxurious as possible," said Barakzai in a tiny office at the base of the tower, where staff drank sweet, milky coffee he swore was the best in Kabul, and cans of Red Bull.
(18) All of these patients' cases were associated with a concurrent external chylous fistula, as evidenced by the appearance of a milky fluid confirmed to be chyle by chemical determination.
(19) There was no gynecomastia, but a white milky secretion could easily be expressed from each breast.
(20) Check in to your tiled room with its hard-working ceiling fan (aircon is optional), then walk straight again, into the milky-green water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Opalescence
Definition:
(n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among both exposed and non-exposed aged over 45, there were no significant differences with regard to the characteristics of lens opacities--prevalence (19 in the 21 exposed; 10 in the 16 non-exposed), distribution of the location, and importance and type (opalescence or discontinuous opacities).
(2) The severity of nuclear opalescence (NO), cortical (C) and posterior subcapular cataract (P) was graded in a masked fashion using the LOCS II standards.
(3) The rate of this reaction can be estimated roughly from the initial rate (Vo) of the accompanying turbidity increase ("super-opalescence") of the acto-S-1 solution.
(4) This may indicate that there is considerable variation in inheritance patterns for hereditary opalescent dentine and that this trait does not always exhibit 100 percent penetrance.
(5) Furthermore, selenite induced the gradual development of opalescence and the oxidation of sulfhydryl in the lens protein solution.
(6) At pH 1-7 the alpha-particles dissociated into their constituent beta-particles with a consequent decrease in the opalescence of the solution.
(7) A family is described in which two females are more severely affected by hereditary opalescent dentine than the males.
(8) Prednisolone-induced aggregates result in an opalescence in the crystallins solution which is reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol.
(9) Residual Triton X-100 was removed from the opalescent vesicle suspension by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and subsequent dialysis.
(10) Shortcomings in previous attempts have been corrected by objectively aligning a "blind" eye with the center of a translucent opalescent screen.
(11) A potential of 100 V was applied for 12 hours, then raised to 200 V for another 12 hours, and finally to 300 V until opalescence appeared at the bottom of the tube.
(12) Colonies of C. perfringens on LLA had typical opalescent zones, a distinctive feature that can aid in presumptive identification.
(13) The presence of the regulatory light chain did not affect hyper-opalescence (or super-opalescence), since there were no significant differences between papain S-1 and chymotryptic S-1 with respect to these phenomena.
(14) We conclude that the most likely mechanism responsible for the zones is a light-scattering effect caused by antibodies attached to the viral surface and that the quality of the opalescence to some extent seems to be dependent on the Fc-fragment.
(15) High activity of MPO was found for retina and lens of healthy men and elderly people with lens opalescence.
(16) The oviposition-stimulating factor was localized in the opalescent gland of the male accessory gland and was transferred to the female via the spermatophore during copulation.
(17) Adjacent filaments in the bundles had a distance of approximately 180 A. Hyper-opalescence occurred at r approximately equal to 1 when KCOOCH3 was used instead of KCl.
(18) Impairment of catalytic efficiency can only be documented in opalescent test solutions in which the insecticides are present in excess of their solubility limit.
(19) We have found that after the initial rise in scattering, there is a further gradual increase in scattering (we call it "super-opalescence").
(20) A fraction possibly corresponding to VHDL (very high density lipoproteins, 77% protein, 23% lipid) was also detected but appeared contaminated by a protein-rich opalescent material.