(n.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
(n.) A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.
(n.) A cloudy appearance in the urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(2) However, exposure to infection may result in temporary conjunctival inflammation and more persistant stromal nebulae.
(3) It won the prestigious Nebula and Hugo awards, and was added to the official reading list of the US marines .
(4) These nebulae do not flatten when contact lens wear is discontinued.
(5) Cercariae remaining in the cornea became the centres of stromal nebulae 0.1-0.2 mm across which remained visible for at least 3 months.
(6) "In one billion years, the sun will begin its red giant stage, increasing terrestrial temperatures above 1,000 degrees, boiling off our atmosphere, eventually forming a planetary nebula, making Earth inhospitable to life," he wrote.
(7) But the community morphed into a nebula for antisocial crime, poverty and discontent; blighted by asbestos, death, joblessness and cyclical deprivation.
(8) We describe a simple technique of superficial keratectomy to remove proud nebulae in which the resulting defect healed quickly under a therapeutic hydrogel lens.
(9) To arrange an interview some years back took a written letter to his apartment in Edinburgh's New Town followed by a wait of several months, after which a reply arrived – handwritten in ink – in an envelope sporting a stamp of the Crab Nebula.
(10) That includes the Blue Marble, a photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew as they travelled towards the moon in 1972, the “first selfie in space”, taken by Buzz Aldrin during a spacewalk in 1966, and the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, most recently in 2014.
(11) These giant white ears are cocked to interstellar whispers: the formation of stars, nebulae and supernovae.
(12) Known as the Helix nebula, the fading star belongs to a class of celestial objects named "planetary nebulae" in the 18th century, after their likeness to gas giants, such as Jupiter.
(13) Best known for her children's fantasy series the Earthsea quartet, and for the science fiction title The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin is the author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and the recipient of literary awards including the Hugo, Nebula and National Book award.
(14) For years now, the wallpaper on my computer has been a picture from one of Nasa's many troves of stunning photos, sometimes a distant nebula or galaxy or close-up of a nearby planet or Earth.
(15) "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever."
(16) Contact lens intolerance in keratoconus may be due to the formation of a proud nebula at or near the apex of the cone that gives rise to contact lens related abrasions.
(17) The role and relative contributions of different forms of energy to the synthesis of amino acids and other organic compounds on the primitive earth, in the parent bodies or carbonaceous chondrites, and in the solar nebula are examined.
(18) Among them are the first sketches of nebulae by Sir John Herschel, who visited South Africa with a telescope in the 1830s, and Newton's death mask.
Nebular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe two cases of Lyme keratitis characterized by multiple focal, nebular opacities at varying levels of the stroma which may progress to edema, neovascularization, and scarring.
(2) Immunoperoxidase-positive inclusions were detected in 201 cells from 13 cases; 200 (99.5%) of these cells contained "nebular" inclusions while 1 cell (0.5%) contained multiple inclusions with homogeneous central target formation.
(3) With F. R. Moulton he developed convincing arguments against the Laplace nebular hypothesis and published a comprehensive 'planetesimal theory' of the origin of the solar system in 1905.
(4) These findings suggest that nebular-type inclusions may be the key morphologic finding for the identification of chlamydial infection and that the application of an immunoperoxidase staining technique on the destained Papanicolaou preparation may be useful for the diagnosis of equivocal inclusions.
(5) The "nebular body" of Shiina appears to be the most specific cytomorphologic evidence of chlamydial infection in cervical smears, but distinction from mucin vacuoles and other nonspecific vacuoles is difficult.