What's the difference between waterish and watery?

Waterish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling water; thin; watery.
  • (a.) Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

Example Sentences:

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.

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