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词汇 thickening
释义 thickening
noun
uk /ˈθɪk.ən.ɪŋ/ us /ˈθɪk.ən.ɪŋ/
[ U ]
the process of becoming thicker or of making something become thicker: 变厚,变浓,变稠
This thickening of the airways causes them to narrow and makes it difficult to move air into and out of the lungs.气管的这种增厚导致它们变窄,并使空气难以进出肺部。
[ C or U ]
a place where something has become thicker: 增厚部
No intestinal wall thickenings were identified.未发现肠壁增厚。
[ U ]
something added to a liquid to make it thicker: 增稠剂
Put everything except the thickening in the pot.将除增稠剂外的所有东西都放入锅中。
Synonym
thickener
The treatment can cause side effects such as thickening of facial hair.
Can you see a thickening or broadening of the tips of your fingers?
In flatworms all that exists is a simple network of nerve fibres. There are a few thickenings in some of them, but these can hardly be described as brains.
Cornflour is used as thickening.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thick, dense and heavy
blocky
cakey
chunkily
chunkiness
chunky
claggy
dense
densely
heavily
heaviness
heftily
hefty
high density
lumpen
super-thick
thicken
thickly
thickness
ultra-heavy
weigh

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Additives in food & drinks
thickening
adjective
used for making something thicker: 增厚剂
Cornflour is used as a thickening agent.玉米粉被用作增稠剂。
Brian coated her hair with a thickening spray.布赖恩用增稠喷雾涂抹她的头发。
becoming thicker: 致稠的,增厚的
Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley.除了环绕山谷最高处的茂密林带外,她的前方一览无遗。
Studies have shown that age need not necessarily be entirely to blame for a thickening waist.研究表明,腰部变粗不一定完全归咎于年老。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thick, dense and heavy
blocky
cakey
chunkily
chunkiness
chunky
claggy
dense
densely
heavily
heaviness
heftily
hefty
high density
lumpen
super-thick
thicken
thickly
thickness
ultra-heavy
weigh

Examples of thickening


thickening
He also noted sudden thickening of coals along zones adjacent to belts of thin coal, which was ascribed to redeposition by flooding.
There was diffuse fibrous thickening of the mural endocardium, involving all the cardiac chambers.
At 9 days of age, progressive thickening of the duct was seen, with closure of the aortic end and absent flow.
As proglottis development proceeds along the strobila, there is a gradual thickening of the lateral nerve cords at the anterior end of each segment.
During development, the extensive thickening of the cell wall is specific to the lateral region of the endosperm and not to the micropylar region.
In the midfetal period the already formed special sense organs of hands, eyes, nostrils, and mouth are sealed by fusion and thickening of the integument.
Coincident with this thickening are a series of small-scale growth faults.
The thickening of the septa is clearly related to the recrystallization and is not an original feature.
The tricuspid valve had thickening and tethering of its leaflets without downward displacement.
An attempt was made to discriminate between structures associated with high-pressure metamorphism and crustal thickening, and retrograde structures associated with decompression.
Thickening of the trace is due to the presence of stimulation artifacts.
In more central outer retina, there was a generalized thickening.
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