lucency , also: lucence

The trees and the shrubs had a moist lucency to their foliage.

"This lucency here in the right cerebellar hemisphere is abnormal.

There is a large lucency in the right temporal region representing an area devoid of bone.

The lateral film showed a polyhedral lucency where the bone flap had been cut.

The faces of all four medical students immediately reflected dismay as they stared at the innocent lucency on the screen.

X-rays show lucency of the ossification front in juveniles.

The building, finalised in 1962, is a modern build out of glass and iron and has a great lucency.

It is important to distinguish the nuchal lucency from the underlying amnionic membrane.

Lucency in orbits (on a radiograph) usually indicate orbital emphysema.

Ambient lucency.

"Here's another area of lucency in the temporal lobe," said Philips, quickly pointing to an area already being replaced by the next image.

When I got back from the icebox with it, she'd taken from her purse two small alabaster cups, thin to the point oftrans- lucency.

During the first trimester, the common abnormalities of the syndrome observed by ultrasound include cystic hygroma and a thickened nuchal lucency.

Smooth muscle fibres had a range of ultrastructural abnormalities including myofilament disarray, electron lucency of the cytoplasm, and proliferation of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Radiographs in osteoid osteoma typically show a round lucency, containing a dense sclerotic central nidus (the characteristic lesion in this kind of tumor), surrounded by sclerotic bone.

The curious lucency of the skin that had been noticeable in them as babies had been greatly subdued by the sunburn, yet enough trace of it remained to attract one's notice.

Radiographically, it appears as a lucency in the bone of varying size and features-sometimes it is a single, well-demarcated lesion whereas it often demonstrates as a multiloculated "soap bubble" appearance.

Ultrastructural abnormalities in smooth muscle fibres have been recognised, including myocyte damage with perinuclear vacuolation, disorientation and dissolution of myofilaments, electron lucency of the cytoplasm, and swelling of mitochondria.

Even with the thin lucency of the moon, it was hard to distinguish shapes, but after a moment she heard the groan again, deep and plaintive, and realized it was the lowing of a cow.

The room is ifiled with singing and with light, and the singing is transformed into light, more light, more lucency, and still she says, "Yes," until she cannot bear it, and she reaches up and tears the light aside.

Any cavitary lesion - Lucency (darkened area) within the lung parenchyma, with or without irregular margins that might be surrounded by an area of airspace consolidation or infiltrates, or by nodular or fibrotic (reticular) densities, or both.

Ultrastructural studies showed increased collagen in the muscularis propria with alterations in smooth muscle fibres including elongation, cytoplasmic vasuolation, proliferation of rough endoplasmic reticulum, myofilament disarray with increased lucency of myocyte cytoplasm, and prominent focal densities.

These are the Septemberers (Septembriseurs); a name of some note and lucency,--but lucency of the Nether-fire sort; very different from that of our Bastille Heroes, who shone, disputable by no Friend of Freedom, as in heavenly light-radiance: to such phasis of the business have we advanced since then!