opacities in English

noun

1

the condition of lacking transparency or translucence; opaqueness.

thinner paints need black added to increase opacity

synonyms: cloudiness, nontransparency, opaqueness, filminess, blurriness, blurredness, blur, haziness, haze

noun

cloudiness, nontransparency, opaqueness, filminess, blurriness, blurredness, blur, haziness, haze
obscurity, lack of clarity, abstruseness, unclearness, unintelligibility, density, incomprehensibility
opaqueness

Use "opacities" in a sentence

1. In the organizing phase, architectural distortion, traction bronchiectasis, cysts, and reticular opacities are seen.

2. In the lungs, scientists have reported cloudy white areas called “ground glass opacities” in Asymptomatic patients

3. Bronchopneumonia is infection involving the secondary pulmonary lobes, and tends to result in scattered nodular opacities involving more than one lobe.

4. The whites that you see in the middle of his pupils are congenital cataracts, so opacities of the lens.

5. Symptoms including Adiaphoresis and angiokeratoma, corneal opacities (cornea verticillata), hearing loss, and abdominal pain are seen as clinical findings in the early stage of classic Fabry disease

6. Reis-Bucklers corneal dystrophy is an infrequent, bilateral, hereditary corneal disorder characterized by a progressive decrease in visual acuity starting in early childhood as a consequence of corneal opacities and scarring

7. Referring to extracted protein the TPN-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase in “permeability-cataracts” (Pau) (tuff-like opacities underneath the posterior capsule) showed double as high an activity as clear lenses and other types of cataracts.

8. (In Egypt there is a superstition that it is unlucky to disturb them.) This almost always leaves the eyes damaged with Bleared lids, opacities of the cornea, and sometimes extensive internal injury as well

9. ‘Inflammation or infection of external auditory canal and Auricle.’ ‘Radiographic examination revealed opacities consistent with bony structure in the Auricles of the ears, with the right more prominent than the left.’ ‘Outside the cranial cavity, the Auricle and the semispinalis capitis muscle are seen.’

10. For the studies conducted in our institute on the imaging of COVID-19, we adopted 3D Slicer, a freeware software produced by the Harvard University, and combined the threshold with the paint brush instruments to achieve fast and precise segmentation of aerated lung, ground glass opacities, and Consolidations.

11. ‘The complexity its Admirers celebrated was usually generated in their own attempts to make sense of its opacities.’ ‘A hush spread over the crowd of friends, fans, Admirers, and collectors who had gathered that evening.’ ‘His fame grew as much from the enthusiasm of his Admirers as from his own efforts.’