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单词 lactescent
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Definition of lactescent in English:

lactescent

adjective lakˈtɛs(ə)ntlækˈtɛs(ə)nt
  • 1Milky in appearance.

    乳状的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the triglyceride level is above 4,500 mg per dL, as in this patient, the serum is described as lactescent (milk-like).
    • In the file sheet 1, a plurality of square recesses 4, which serve as portions for receiving films, are arrayed in a transparent or lactescent planar square plastic sheet 3.
    • Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside.
    • When the crystallization has terminated, the autoclave is cooled and a lactescent suspension is discharged.
    • When an alcoholic patient presents with AP and has either an elevated TG level or a lactescent serum, it is difficult for the physician to decide whether HTG or pancreatitis was the initial event.
    1. 1.1Botany Yielding a milky latex.
      〔植〕具乳汁的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is brownish-yellow outside, whitish and lactescent within, having an acrid taste and disagreeable odour.

Derivatives

  • lactescence

  • noun lakˈtɛs(ə)ns
    • Consecutively to the administration of high doses of propofol, an important lactescence of samples had been observed and the tests realised showed that lactescence play a key role in the interference with the measurement of bicarbonates (as described in the literature).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Visible lactescence in a blood sample is due to increased triglycerides.
      • It could be observed whether bilirubin, haemoglobin or lactescence of the samples interfere with the measurement procedure.
      • In fact, patients with severe nephrotic syndrome exhibited lactescence of the serum.
      • To produce lactescence it is necessary for fat to be emulsified into chylomicra greater than 0.1 in diameter to be rendered visible.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin lactescent- 'being milky', from the verb lactere, from lac, lact- 'milk'.

Rhymes

acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent

Definition of lactescent in US English:

lactescent

adjectivelakˈtes(ə)ntlækˈtɛs(ə)nt
  • 1Milky in appearance.

    乳状的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the file sheet 1, a plurality of square recesses 4, which serve as portions for receiving films, are arrayed in a transparent or lactescent planar square plastic sheet 3.
    • Just looking at the lactescent SavMart or the uninhabited appearance of Sy's apartment is enough to make you feel hollow inside.
    • When the crystallization has terminated, the autoclave is cooled and a lactescent suspension is discharged.
    • When the triglyceride level is above 4,500 mg per dL, as in this patient, the serum is described as lactescent (milk-like).
    • When an alcoholic patient presents with AP and has either an elevated TG level or a lactescent serum, it is difficult for the physician to decide whether HTG or pancreatitis was the initial event.
    1. 1.1Botany Yielding a milky latex.
      〔植〕具乳汁的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is brownish-yellow outside, whitish and lactescent within, having an acrid taste and disagreeable odour.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin lactescent- ‘being milky’, from the verb lactere, from lac, lact- ‘milk’.

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