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Examination revealed a tumefaction, draining a whitish secretion from the scar of the biopsy.
They often have cloudy whitish patches on the throat, near the umbilicus, and in the genital area.
Four days prior to admission, she developed a cough productive of whitish sputum.
The Tooth Cave spider is a small, whitish, long-legged spider with obsolescent eyes.
Frostbitten skin initially turns red, then it takes on a whitish, waxy appearance.
Damage from the Russian wheat aphid ranges from yellow or whitish streaking to purpling of the damaged leaves.
Flowers are hexamerous, tubular, whitish and odoriferous, pollinated by relatively specialized vectors as large bees and hawkmoths.
These areas are then overlaid with a curious but beautiful, whitish veil-like layer, as if to remind us that her scenes are fictive.
An evergreen vine, partridgeberry grows up to a foot long, with a whitish, trailing stem.
The apples from China, with whitish yellow pulp and a cloudy red and striped appearance, are the latest to hit the city.
He wore an old leather jerkin, the type that coalmen have, and a whitish shirt and a flat cap.
This material, which is colored whitish or grey to yellow-orange, is so light and friable that specimens crumble under finger pressure.
The whitish crescent-shaped area at the base of the nail is called the lunula.
The whitish, half-moon-shaped area at the base of your nail is called the lunula.
The plagioclase feldspar weathers to produce a whitish gray rock, while the mafic minerals produce contrasting darker grains.
Egg masses consist of 25 to 50 whitish eggs laid overlapping each other like fish scales.
The tonsils and the back of the throat may look red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus.
His strands of hair were tied back by a dark string yet his hair shown bright whitish blonde.
This waxy layer forms the grape's typically whitish surface, called the bloom.
The tonsils and the back of the throat may look red, swollen and dotted with whitish or yellowish patches of pus.
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The bubble simply absorbed her most powerful attack as it began to glow with a whitish yellow light.
They were great gleaming disks that stared unwinkingly, luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity.
There was a full moon, so the moonlight made the tall grass glow an eerie whitish green.
Indonesians cultivate it as a garden vegetable and recognize numerous forms, including a large whitish one and smaller green ones.
Add the prawn cutlets and toss until they are just sealed and turn a whitish pink colour.
Pseudopollen is a mealy material, usually whitish or yellowish in colour, which superficially resembles pollen.
It is brownish-yellow outside, whitish and lactescent within, having an acrid taste and disagreeable odour.
Lesions of the mucous membranes appear as whitish, reticulated, lacy plaques of the buccal mucosa, which may be painful.
Thin and whitish leukorrhea with little odor indicates deficiency of the spleen and kidney.
When alive these fishes are a beautiful blue tinged grey on the back with a whitish belly, but this colour fades to a dull dark grey after death.
The Green sandpiper is a small solitary wader which has a long straight beak, a whitish eye ring and eyestripe.
The frail, brown shell is marked with longitudinal ridges, sometimes having a whitish aril fixed to one end.
The sulfur at El Desierto occurs in a whitish to grayish Pliocene tuff, consisting mostly of hardened, chiefly andesitic to dacitic, volcanic ashes, and capped by basalt.
If the floor is not flushed thoroughly with water after clean up, the muriatic acid will continue to leach lime from the grout causing the whitish dust.
The tonsils and back of the throat may be covered with a whitish coating, or appear red, swollen, and dotted with whitish or yellowish specks of pus.
Alongside them were long, unshelled prawns, their black-and-white striped bodies set against white scallops, still very much alive, judging by their whitish shells.
A tuft of whitish pink mycelial growth may be seen on the seed.
During this course one new chalazion had started developing on the right lower eyelid with itching, mild discomfort, whitish discharge from eyes and lacrymation.
The whitish and smoothish sleepers are fairly new, while the darkish and roughish sleepers may be 10 years old. Wooden sleepers are not used where there are termites.
While elecampane root is better used for a cold or cough associated with coldness, weak digestion, low energy and whitish to clear mucus discharge.
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The exo-carp is coriaceous, thin, and dull, with glandular dots. Themesocarp is fleshy, whitish turning to yellow at maturity, with a granulose texture and astringent taste.
However, their true color varies among individuals from a uniform dark slate gray with little whitish mottling to a very light blue with extensive mottling.
Anorthosite, a greyish to whitish fine-grained rock, is used in glass, ceramics, metallurgical and filler applications.
Opor is usually whitish in colour and uses neither cinnamon or turmeric, while gulai may contain either or both.
Nestlings are covered in pale buff down feathers, shading to whitish on the belly.
The attack on a sea hare by a spiny lobster causes release of the whitish opaline, followed the co-release of both opaline and ink.
The male is duller in fresh nonbreeding plumage, with whitish tips on many feathers.
A typical fracture will have a whitish color towards the thin area of the wedge and grayish color towards the wide end.
They are not bright or flashy in appearance, and their color can vary from greenish to whitish, brown, purple, black, or hyaline.
Most men familiar with the handling of leather must occasionally have come across samples showing a whitish scum, or spew, upon the surface.
Carapace covered in adpressed colourless hairs, with long brown bristles near eyes and some whitish hairs on eye field.
Some sea hares blast predators, such as crabs, with a defensive spray combining dark purple ink and a whitish substance called opaline.
Male flowers are pedicellate, with five greenish or whitish tepals and five stamens with flaccid filaments opposite the tepals.
Plump brown seeds that shell out easily from dry, whitish glumes or chaff indicate full maturity.
The eel acquires a greyish colour with a whitish or cream coloration ventrally.
It is a small black beetle with a short snout that does its greatest damage as a whitish grub living in the soil at the base of its host plant feeding on plant roots.
The whitish granules were found to predominantly contain palmitin acid, a chief ingredient of palm oil, said Sunday the Burgas environmental unit.
Sierra Nevada, 8 39' N, 70 46' W, saxicolous, leaves to 2 m long, pendant, tepals translucent, whitish yellow, inflorescence and infrutescence erect, Dorr et al.
In most species, the upper surface of the leaves is uniformly green and shiny, without stomata or with a few on the tip, visible as whitish spots.
Another variety of mica in spangles of a yellowish gold, or whitish silver colour, is known all over the world, by the ridiculous names of cat's gold, or cat's silver.
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On videodermoscopical examination, AKF is characterized by the presence of dark lacunae, whitish veil, red lacunae, erythema, peripheral erythema, and hemorrhagic crusts.
Examples from Classical Literature
The markhoor is a magnificent goat, with long whitish hair and great spiral horns.
If these are carefully separated, the antheridia can just be seen as minute whitish globules, barely visible to the naked eye.
They are trees or shrubs with long, generally narrow leaves, panicles of small whitish flowers, and berried fruit.
Bill black, the cere or membrane at its base black, accompanied by whitish whiskers.
From three to six feet tall, resembling cholla, with long, cylindrical joints and whitish spines.
Just back of the neck a whitish band crosses the shoulders, and this is why he is called the collared peccary.
The colugo is about as big as a good-sized cat, and its fur is olive or brown in color, mottled with whitish blotches and spots.
The sarcoptid are minute whitish mites, semi-globular in shape, with a delicate transversely striated cuticula.
The glomeruli stand out as whitish dots and the sclerosed arteries are easily recognized, as their walls are much thickened.
It had not that filmy, whitish appearance which distinguishes the latter phenomenon.
The color varies from whitish to flesh color, or dull red, and appears more or less saturated with a red juice.
Their whitish colour, their lightness, and their friability left no room for doubt on the point.
The fog was become a mist here, a frore whitish mist that saturated him with a malignant chill.
The stem is stuffed, tapering downward, whitish, furfuraceous near the cap.
The color is bright blue when young, becoming pale and whitish in age, with a tendency to fuscous on the center.
They have no brain, but a ganglion of nerves, a whitish substance situated near their mouths.
Cooper's hawk having a rounded tail with whitish tip, and the sharp-shinned hawk a square tail.
His face goes whitish green, with an undercurrent of slatey grey running through it.
The cup is infundibuliform, the outside as well as the stem whitish, and downy, the bowl or disk is reddish-orange.
The extradiscal spots in the transverse rows are pale yellow, and the submarginal spots whitish.
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A tall-growing species with whitish, spiny stems, and simple three-lobed leaves that are tomentose on the under sides.
The meconium is black, and when the infant is effectually eased of it, the subsequent stools are of a whitish cast.
Moreover the medulla oblongata, which passes through them, is of a silver or whitish colour.
Prostrate herbs, with whorled leaves and small whitish axillary flowers without petals, in summer.
On the ventral side of the parapodia are whitish tubercles with a dark spot in the middle.
The whitish patches of pharyngomycosis leptothrica are largely composed of these fungi.
The whitish gleam was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.
It is a little smaller than our own rock dove, and has not the whitish plumage on the lower part of the back.
The female is black, while the male is frosted over with a whitish powder.
The gills are distant, rather broad, shortly decurrent, whitish.
It is whitish, or yellowish, or pinkish, with its branches red-tipped.
The gills are rotundate-free, close, narrow, whitish or pallid.
The indusia appear as little whitish scales on the back of the veins.
It is sometimes white or whitish, but more frequently like the cap.
The ventral fins are whitish, the other fins are bluish black.
It is quite large in size, white or whitish, very woolly or floccose.
The only unusual thing found, at least for now, was a whitish splotch on Discovery's right wing that looked like a bird dropping.
It has enormous leaves, and small whitish flowers in panicles.
The gills are broad, close, adnate, whitish or pale cinereous.
The beak is three-quarters of an inch in length, pearl grey, or whitish.
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The asbestus, a mineral substance of a whitish or silver color.
In the case of genuine guano, this should be whitish or greyish.
Next he took out a double handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty.
Gills narrow, close, adnexed or free, whitish or tinged with flesh-color.
Internally the rootstock is whitish and of a spongy texture.
If underdone, and left greenish or whitish, they have a raw bitter taste.
The whitish parapet makes the skyline to observers in the English line.
The gills are thin, close, white or whitish, and very decurrent.
The gills are slightly decurrent, whitish then gray, somewhat crowded.
The gills are attached to the stem, often with a decurrent tooth, whitish.
The gills are close, decurrent, whitish, some of them forked at the base.
The whitish tips of denture are conical, compressed, and rather acute.
The blue bonnets turned the field blue with a whitish cast to it.
The soil of a great part of this Green River valley is a whitish clay, into which the rain cannot penetrate, but which dries and cracks with the sun.
As the sun crept up the sky the day became excessively hot, and under foot a thick, whitish sand grew burning and blinding, so that they travelled only very slowly.
And just as I was stooping and laying down the stakes, I saw something odd and round and whitish lying on the ground under a nut-bush by the side of me.
It was long, whitish, and blotched with pimples, the nose flattened, and the lower jaw projecting, with a bristle of coarse whiskers round the chin.
There, in the warm litter above the melons, very cunningly hidden, he found twenty-five eggs, about the size of a bantam's eggs, but with whitish skin instead of shell.