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Example sentences for "thickening"

Lexicographically close words:
thiccy; thick; thicke; thicken; thickened; thickenings; thickens; thicker; thickest; thicket
  1. Polyxena, one chance to rend the veil Thickening and blackening 'twixt us two!

  2. The intestines, and sometimes the stomach, are dark red throughout, marked by petechiæ, and are often the seat of thickening from sanguineous or transparent colloid infiltration.

  3. The following have been observed: thickening or infiltration of the periosteum, which may be found to separate readily from the bone after the death of the patient, or there may be pus found between the periosteum and the bone.

  4. First appear circumscribed patches of hyperæmia, in which the papillary layer of the corium is concerned, and which is followed by some thickening of the rete, the epithelia involved becoming coarsely granular.

  5. The vessels were remarkable by the extensive fibroid thickening of their coats.

  6. In some instances there was considerable thickening of the spinal nerves at the junction of the posterior and anterior roots, with hemorrhages.

  7. They may amount to great thickening and deep capillary injections of the mucous lining of the tubes, which contain clear, frothy mucus or thick, viscid masses of muco-purulent secretion unmixed with air.

  8. The thickening mists were rolling over the land, spilling their whiteness across the hills into unseen, hidden valleys.

  9. This induration causes contraction and narrowing of the orifices with shortening and thickening of the chordae tendineae, and the valves imperfectly open, or no longer close.

  10. If the thickening of the walls of the smaller vessels advances, their caliber is diminished, and there may even be complete obstruction (endarteritis obliterans).

  11. The action, the attitude, told far more than words, of the cold, dark despair thickening around her.

  12. To this wharf Nathalie made her way in the thickening darkness, the piteous rain beating in her face, the sea-wind fluttering her black vail and soaking dress.

  13. A white cloud hid the Hall and the trees, thickening and spreading as a volley of musketry sent its smoke gushing into the bushes.

  14. This difference, being magnified by the power of the microscope, readily accounts for the chromatic thickening of the outline just mentioned.

  15. A less proportional length of the midrib, in an inward direction, is formed by the inward folding of the wall, and a greater length by the thickening of its inner longitudinal margin, than in the last species.

  16. So early as this I noticed that there were signs of commencing thickening in the heart, as shown by the degree and extent of its impulse.

  17. Events were thickening around me which were soon to change the world, but they were unmarked by me.

  18. And we know that we occasionally meet with people of 80 and upwards whose pulses are unexceptionable, beyond presenting a trace of thickening and enlargement.

  19. The great majority presented distinct thickening of the arterial walls.

  20. Möller's version of true curb is a thickening of the plantar ligament (calcaneocuboid or calcaneometatarsal).

  21. Celt, irefully, his eyes on the thickening swarm of flyers, some of them now plainly visible in detail against the aching smears of color flung across the eastern reaches of cloudland.

  22. I made out, despite the thickening twilight, the familiar uniform of the burgher guard; M.

  23. Vigo, I, and the guardsmen rushed hither and thither into the ever-thickening crowd, shouting after Lucas and exchanging rapid questions with every one we passed.

  24. Through the thickening winter twilight, wide apart the battle rolled, In its sheath the sabre rested, and the cannon's lips grew cold.

  25. But from out the thickening crowd Cried a sudden voice and loud "Barclay!

  26. II The snow that had began to fall softly and quietly about the middle of the afternoon had steadily increased until now in the thickening dusk it spread a white blindness everywhere.

  27. Nebula is superficial, and consists of mere thickening of the conjunctival covering, from lymph having been effused.

  28. Sometimes it is accompanied with a prolapsus uteri, sometimes with thickening of the os uteri.

  29. The hardness or thickening is very circumscribed, not diffusing itself gradually and imperceptibly into the surrounding parts, but terminating rather abruptly.

  30. This kind of suppuration, being matured generally without thickening of parts, has been sometimes pointed out as suppuration independently of previous inflammatory action.

  31. Chronic thickening of the Scalp is a consequence, by no means unfrequent, of slight injuries in those of strumous habit, but may also occur without any assignable cause.

  32. Chronic thickening and contraction of the palmar aponeurosis occurs occasionally, and, in some cases, to such an extent as to disable the hand almost entirely.

  33. The cavity of the organ is generally diminished in proportion to the thickening of its parietes, and there is a loss of balance betwixt the retaining and expelling powers.

  34. Along with thickening of the bladder, and disease of its mucous coat, there was found a large abscess of the cellular tissue, communicating with an abscess in the third lobe of the prostate gland, and that with the cavity of the bladder.

  35. The ductus ad narem, though wide in the skeleton, is of very limited dimensions in the living body, and is in consequence readily made impermeable to mucous fluid, by even slight thickening of its lining membrane.

  36. Mesosternite broad with a rod-like internal thickening from the insertion of the coxae upwards (fig.

  37. Mesosternite narrow, without internal rod-like thickening from the insertion of the coxae upwards.

  38. The lonely feeling of an alien hushed us into silence as we came to the noisy and thickening river craft at the upper end of the city.

  39. The commencing thickening of epiblast to form the auditory involution.

  40. In b the thickening has become completely separated from the hypoblast as the notochord.

  41. M I, the foremost of the two, passes through the anterior part of the thickening of epiblast, which becomes involuted as the auditory vesicle.

  42. Section nearer the tail; it shews the thickening of the hypoblast to form the notochord (ch').

  43. Shewing the median thickening of the blastoderm.

  44. The sections shew that the oviduct arises as a thickening on the under surface of the segmental duct into which at the utmost a very narrow prolongation of the lumen of the segmental duct is carried.

  45. Thickening of epiblast to form the auditory pit.

  46. The formation of the body-cavity in the muscle-plate and the ventral thickening of the parietal plate.

  47. Medullary groove (md), which passes off from the anterior end of the primitive groove, and is produced by the thickening of the mesoblast.

  48. Thickening of hypoblast to form the notochord.

  49. At first it will show a brown color, later it will become black and begin to smoke until the thickening smoke announces that you have developed the spark.

  50. In a real burgoo we put no thickening like meal, rice or other material of similar nature, because the broth is strained and served clear.

  51. And to show the truant people where their duty should have bound them, the haze had been thickening all over the sea, while the sun kept the time on the old church dial.

  52. The difficulty as revealed by the post-mortem, lay in a thickening of the membrane of the Eustachian tubes.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    setting; tenacity; thickening; thickness; toughness; viscosity