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Definition of Opacification
1. Noun. The process of becoming cloudy or opaque.
Definition of Opacification
1. Noun. The action of making something opaque or cloudy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Opacification
1. 1. The process of making opaque. 2. The formation of opacities. Origin: L. Opacus, shady (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opacification
Literary usage of Opacification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"The terms used to describe the progressive stages of opacification are early ...
Cortical opacification progresses relatively rapidly and is caused by ..."
2. Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose: A Manual for Students and by Frank Ebenezer Miller (1892)
"Some residue of the opacity is almost always left. and. in the cases where dense
opacification includes the whole cornea, vision is permanently much ..."
3. A Treatise on "unripe" Cataract by William A. M'Keown (1898)
"It is certain that the lens could be more perfectly extracted early than after
a slow and partial opacification has taken place, with proliferation of the ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"I believe ultimate complete opacification of the lens. DISCUSSION. DR. SAMUEL
THEOBALD, Baltimore: A case somewhat similar to this occurred in my practice ..."
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