(n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
(n.) That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
(v. t.) To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
(v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
(2) Peripheral blood smears from old NZB mice show an increase in circulating lymphocytes and "smudged" or ruptured cells, often seen in human CLL.
(3) On light microscopy, "rosette" and "smudge" cells were seen in these cases, and two patterns of virus particle distribution in infected cells were seen ultrastructurally.
(4) With Kitade sporting teased hair, dark, smudged makeup, ropes and an arm piercing, it's safe to assume her music will also take a turn for the darker.
(5) Smudging of Z-bands and diffuse dilatation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, although occasionally diffuse and massive, were often found in otherwise normal muscle fibres and were rarely observed in severely atrophic ones.
(6) Renal tubular cells exhibit eccentric nuclei, with smudged chromatine, and round, refringent cytoplasmic vacuoles.
(7) The occurrence of smudge, as it is often called, is not very common, but is brought to the attention of most jewelers from time to time.
(8) Inkjet tends to be cheaper than laser, but the ink can smudge.
(9) There are dark smudges under her eyes, and she looks both wound up with adrenaline, and exhausted.
(10) Four distinct but aspecific patterns of omental pathology were identified with CT: omental caking; finely infiltrated fat with a "smudged" appearance; discrete nodules; cystic masses.
(11) Autopsy revealed an extensive necrotizing bronchiolitis and alveolitis with frequent "smudge cells."
(12) The sharp stick is now there and a little while ago I found myself high up it, wondering at a 60-mile-wide sweep in which I could see Southend-on-Sea in one direction and Ascot in the other, or, rather, smudges I was told were these pleasure grounds of poor and rich.
(13) It was the first of the khamseen , a dust-filled wind that sweeps in from the Sahara each spring, blurring the streets and skies into a single ochre smudge.
(14) A sheet of paper filled with statistics, A certificate with smudged footprints, A tiny bracelet engraved "Girl, Smith."
(15) We conclude that in the presence of smudge cells, leukocyte counts can be made as reliably by automated methods as by pipette and chamber technics.
(16) The overheating of the instruments is considered to be the main cause and the plastic materials smudges and unstable fixing of the diamond grains--as accompanying causes.
(17) It was histopathologically demonstrated that necrobiotic tubular cells had inclusion-bearing cells of three types: "smudge cells," Cowdry A intranuclear inclusion cells, and full-type intranuclear-containing cells.
(18) The smears showed cells containing nuclear inclusions with radiated strands ("rosette" cells), large homogeneously-staining nuclei ("smudge" cells) and nuclei with a "honeycomb" appearance.
(19) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(20) Other presentations include milk of calcium within microcysts in a unilateral, clustered distribution; milk of calcium within macrocysts; sandlike calcifications (discrete particles rather than smudges on craniocaudal view) within cysts of various sizes; and rarely, milk of calcium within the lipid cysts of either fat necrosis or galactoceles.
Smudginess
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later spotty or smudgy extravasation may be seen in necrotic tumor areas, and increased vascular anastomoses appear between the nutritive and functional pulmonary circulations.
(2) Add the smudgy pink carpet, pussybow ties and a cup of tea and slice of sponge cake are the accessories to match.
(3) In fact, after just one day the pink coat would probably be a smudgy lilac coat, and after one more day it would be a sludgy grey coat.
(4) The town and its hinterland even echoes the Riviera's artistic credentials: still dotted with galleries, it was a favoured spot of the Glasgow Boys in the late 19th century, pulled here by the south-facing coastline, smudgy skies and gentle landscape of low, rippling hills.
(5) From the ink lines of a shirt pocket with spectacles poking out in a 1968 sketch of Christopher Isherwood, to the Fair Isle pattern of a jumper worn by Ossie Clark in an almost smudgy crayon picture from 1970 , clothes often feel part of the Hockney narrative or atmosphere.
(6) Electron microscopic evaluation of subcutaneous nodules excised from two cases of acute rheumatic fever showed an electron dense and smudgy material which had a distinct filamentous appearance in places.
(7) Although upper gastrointestinal biopsies were negative, the rectal biopsy was characterized by extensive smudgy eosinophilic deposits in the submucosa that closely resembled amyloid, except that they were not congophilic.
(8) Smudginess and enlargement of the motor end plates were the most definitely abnormal feature of the extrafusal innervation pattern; the intrafusal fibers, on the other hand, were either unremarkable or showed increased tortuosity, beading and in more extreme cases of grossly complicated intertwining pattern.
(9) Sam Cam with her smudgy dolphin, the heavily tattooed at Royal Ascot – these people are role models?
(10) Cells with large, dark, smudgy intranuclear inclusions, consistent with adenovirus inclusions, were also seen in subependymal locations.
(11) The eyes are quite glam rock, they are quite pop art, and the silicon mascara around them is very smudgy,” she says, running her hands through the synthetic thread eyebrows sewn on the rug.
(12) In the tiny gaps where some panels didn’t quite fit together, clusters of breadcrumbs collected, and a smudgy semicircle of coffee cup stains bloomed where my dad always sat.
(13) The Mallory body-containing hepatocytes were mostly devoid of cytoskeletal filaments, containing only a few thick bundles of filaments, which appeared partly smudgy and electron-dense.
(14) The next common type is composed of smudgy homogeneous or finely granular material, while the least common type consists of parallel fibrils with gentle curves giving a 'finger-print' appearance.