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Definition of Opacifies
1. opacify [v] - See also: opacify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opacifies
Literary usage of Opacifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... due to opacifies, <fcc., in the layers of the retina, in front of Jacob's
membrane. The intra-retinal may be produced in a nonnal eye in various ways. ..."
2. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Then the lens fibers directly adjacent become opaque, and finally the entire lens
opacifies. The whole process runs an extremely slow course and takes a ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1858)
"The puncture, if in the pupil, may be recognised by a faint cloudiness in one
spot ; the rapidity with which the crystalline opacifies depends on the rent ..."
4. A Text-book of Ophthalmology by William Fisher Norris, Charles Augustus Oliver (1893)
"As the nutrition of the retina soon becomes deranged, and the membrane partially
opacifies, a thick whitish veil is formed over the eye-ground. ..."
5. On wounds and injuries of the eye by William White Cooper (1859)
"The puncture, if in the pupil, may be recognised by a faint cloudiness in one
spot ; the rapidity with which the crystalline opacifies depends on the rent ..."
6. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1890)
"Here glaucomatous symptoms arise, tension increases, ocular and ciliary neuralgia
ensue, the lens opacifies, the anterior veins enlarge, the cornea becomes ..."
7. Illustrations of Some of the Principal Diseases of the Eye: With a Brief by Henry Power (1868)
"... and the lens swells and opacifies from the imbibition of fluid, leeches should
be applied to the temple, and the bichloride of mercury with cinchona or ..."
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