(a.) Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statesman looked weak, rheumy-eyed and uncomprehending.
(2) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(3) Pressed, he rubs rheumy eyes, gazes out the window and falls silent.
(4) His eyes are a rheumy mud bath, his nose is running, he could do with a good ironing.
(5) Looking rheumy-eyed, Abdullah asked that Karzai postpone the 2 August, 2014, inauguration date, a request that Ghani echoed.
Watery
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
(a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
(a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
(a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(2) An oral glucose electrolyte solution is often used in place of intravenous therapy in diarrheal diseases caused by Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic E. coli, and undiagnosed watery diarrheal diseases.
(3) The majority of the children had an acute onset of watery diarrhea.
(4) A 6-month-old girl from upstate New York had a fever of 40 C for two weeks and green watery diarrhea, and irritability was noted when she was handled.
(5) In 44% of cases the principal clinical signs were a watery discharge and a blood stained discharge.
(6) The CT scan revealed a space-occupying lesion with watery fluid in the left cranial fossa, which was divided into two parts by a thin septum.
(7) The infant girl passed large amounts of watery stools, but tolerated feeds well.
(8) The first child, a female, presented with irritability, jitteriness and watery diarrhea at three days of age.
(9) A second peak of watery diarrhea in the winter from November to January and was seen primarily in children less than 2 years old.
(10) A 40 year old woman presented with a 10 year history of watery diarrhoea and an acute quadriparesis.
(11) Mortality was high among animals with acute watery or hemorrhagic diarrhea.
(12) was always above 25 per cent from patients with dysentery and greater than 7 per cent from those with watery diarrhoea during the post-epidemic years.
(13) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(14) The therapeutic efficacy of Bioflorin (Streptococcus faecium SF68; Gipharmex, Milan, Italy) in acute watery diarrhea was evaluated in 183 Bangladeshi adults.
(15) Collagenous colitis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder of the colon associated with watery diarrhea, minimal to normal endoscopic findings, and a pathognomonic subepithelial band of collagen.
(16) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(17) It was at an all-time low here - three handfuls of rice a day and a watery soup with leaves floating in it.
(18) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(19) A patient is reported who had undergone right adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma and 15 yr later developed a recurrence in the same site complicated by the watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, achlorhydria syndrome.
(20) In another study in which 130 watery stools from routine specimens of patients of all ages were investigated, 36% were positive for pathogens with 11% bacteria, 18% viruses and 7% mixed pathogens.