(n.) Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings were as follows: With the exception of four, the size and weight of the patients were within the norm; 20 passed frequent stools of pulpy consistency; 16 suffered from disturbances of continence; 14 developed severe, partially recurrent enteritis.
(2) There's a bit on the pulpy flamboyance of Italy's giallo thrillers, a segment on Argento's peerlessly tasteless memorabilia shop ("Is that a torso?")
(3) In our patients we noticed pulpy swelling of the fascia after myringoplastic surgery with fascia and Vicryl mesh.
(4) Their debut album, 2010's Crazy For You, mixed Phil Spector dynamics with scuzzy lo-fi guitars, and one of its breakout hits, Our Deal, provided Drew Barrymore with her first gig as a music video director, with an extended clip starring Chloë Moretz in a pulpy gang wars tale.
(5) Your body will decompose to a grey, pulpy mulch that will fertilise the soil the next generation will nonchalantly trample over on its way to the hologram shop.
(6) Functional results were good: 87% of patients were able to eat solid or pulpy food post-operatively.
(7) Despite the consensus that The Mask of Dimitrios is "Ambler's finest novel", as the blurb on the back of the pulpy, now out-of-print Pan Classic Crime edition of 10 years ago put it, it is in some ways the least satisfactory of the prewar novels being reissued by Penguin.
(8) In the outer dry coloured skins protocatechuic acid reaches concentrations up to 2% of plant material; the internal pulpy tissues show lower concentrations (ca.
(9) Se7en promised a pulpy police procedural but twisted to become a devastating morality tale.
(10) On gross examination the cervical intervertebral disks in the horse miss a pulpy nucleus but consist of a fibrocartilaginous tissue only, which is in contrast to literature.
(11) Intragastric administration of lithium carbonate to pregnant rats immediately after confirmation of pregnancy resulted in high incidence of cleft palate, growth retardation, brain liquification and pulpy brain, hepatomegaly and digital abnormalities, when compared to the saline-treated controls.
Squashy
Definition:
(a.) Easily squashed; soft.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rare lesion of epithelioma cuniculatum pedis may be recognized by the gross appearance of a slow-growing, bulky, "squashy," non-healing, exophytic mass of long duration on the sole, exuding foul-smelling purulent keratin debris from numerous sinuses, and biopsies showing extensive infiltrating plaques of keratinizing, well-formed, squamous epithelium forming walls for numerous sinuses filled with purulent material.
(2) He points to a big squashy armchair in the corner of the sitting room, a homely space with a canary, budgie and an exercise bike.
(3) In a clearing shaded by trees amid modest mudbrick houses, six of the militia men sprawled on two squashy sofas.
(4) There's a terrific photo of her in her recently published memoir, Killing My Own Snakes, taken at Stanley airport in 1982, where she's wearing jeans, a T-shirt, some sensible boots, and an enormous squashy silver-fox fur coat.