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THICKENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made or having become thick
Example:
thickened bronchial arteries
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Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made thick in consistency
Example:
dust-thickened saliva
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Similar:
thick (relatively dense in consistency)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
Example:
with a workman's callous hands
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Adjectives
Similar:
tough; toughened (physically toughened)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb thicken
Context examples:
In mycosis fungoides, an area of skin that is thickened, raised, red, scaly, and itchy.
(Mycosis fungoides plaque, NCI Dictionary)
The skin becomes puffy around the eyes and on the cheeks and the face is dull and expressionless with thickened nose and lips.
(Myxedema, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
It appears in childhood as redness on the palms and soles which progresses to well demarcated, thickened, yellowish and waxy lesions.
(Diffuse Palmoplantar Keratoderma, NCI Thesaurus)
A skin disease marked by scaly or thickened patches on the skin and often caused by prolonged exposure to arsenic.
(Bowen disease, NCI Dictionary)
In a breath, the river that flows through our Sunday walks is sparkling in the summer sun, is ruffled by the winter wind, or thickened with drifting heaps of ice.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A skin disease marked by scaly or thickened patches on the skin, and often caused by prolonged exposure to arsenic.
(Cutaneous Precancerous Condition, NCI Dictionary)
Left alone, I walked to the window; but nothing was to be seen thence: twilight and snowflakes together thickened the air, and hid the very shrubs on the lawn.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A heart disorder in which the pericardial sac becomes thickened and fibrotic, tightening the myocardium and impeding the normal myocardial function.
(Constrictive Pericarditis, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by a thickened and fibrotic pericardial sac; these fibrotic changes impede normal myocardial function by restricting myocardial muscle action.
(Constrictive Pericarditis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
