turbidity
noun
the state or quality of being clouded or opaque, usually because of suspended matter or stirred-up sediment.
Example Sentences
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Pain in the region of the liver, œdema of the inferior extremities, paucity and turbidness of the urine, yellowness of the skin, and great emaciation attended the latter stages of the disease.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Some degree of turbidness is frequent; it may occur, as we have stated, with N. W. wind, but, if it does, the wind soon changes round to the southward.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
A microscopic examination of cholera stools shows that their turbidness depends chiefly upon desquamated epithelium, with which is mixed white corpuscles and bacteria.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A turbidness will instantly ensue, and a flocculent matter collect on the surface of the fluid, if the mixture be left undisturbed.
From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Friedrich Christian Accum
