What's the difference between milky and whitish?

Milky


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.
  • (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.

Whitish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
  • (a.) Covered with an opaque white powder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At necropsy, small whitish foci were found randomly distributed on the liver surface.
  • (2) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
  • (3) A whitish and hard tumor, 10 cm in maximum diameter, without any cirrhotic features was noted in the resected liver.
  • (4) However, no report to date has been made on the presence of H. pylori in the whitish exudate of peptic ulcers.
  • (5) The fungus could be histologically verified from a whitish yellow thick deposits on the lens in the anterior chamber after enucleation of the eye.
  • (6) In 52 infertile patients, laparoscopy demonstrated enlarged ovaries (maximum diameter 3.5 to 5 cm) with a smooth whitish surface and no mature follicles, corpora lutea, or other cysts.
  • (7) The patient initially responded to topical steroids, but developed a whitish capsular plaque through to represent possible Propionibacterium acnes endophthalmitis.
  • (8) Laparotomy revealed a firm, granular, whitish mass involving the pancreas.
  • (9) Physical examination was unremarkable except that whitish fluid could be expressed from both breasts.
  • (10) In patients with this disturbance, the retinal opacification and the visual disturbance are transient, but the tiny depression in the retina with its whitish border is permanent.
  • (11) A dystrophy of the eye fundi was observed (whitish puncta of the macula); except for the "almond shaped eyes", there was no obvious dismorphism.
  • (12) On endoscopy, the colour of oesophageal mucosa was normal in 28 and whitish pale in 2 cases.
  • (13) The tumor is elevated and characterized by a central punched-out area filled with amorphous whitish material.
  • (14) The lesions produced with a power of 200 mW were characterized by small whitish spots surrounded by grayish rings and retinochoroidal adhesions were produced by proliferated cells.
  • (15) Colonies of the mutant grown at room temperature did not show the whitish cotton-like morphology typical of the mycelial form of the parental strain.
  • (16) Of all sites studied by the staining method, H. pylori was detected at the highest frequency in the whitish exudate.
  • (17) It appeared as a uniform and smooth whitish layer with a thickness proportional to the duration of placement.
  • (18) The signs of his disease were exsudative retinal detachment with shifting fluid, rip of the retinal pigmentepithelium and a mass of whitish-yellowish subretinal protein.
  • (19) During laparotomy the liver was enlarged, hard, with multiple whitish nodules on its surgace but was otherwise normal.
  • (20) Three patients presented an unilateral whitish cloudiness of the corneal epithelium which reduced the vision considerably.

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