Word: whitish
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...plastic surgeons to your very wish will bow." Over the years, the cosmetic wizards have conjured many escapes from the ravages of age, from chemical peels to skin abrasion to surgical lifts. Now they are wielding a new magic wand: syringes filled with collagen. Injections of the whitish gel smooth away time-worn creases as well as acne and surgical scars. And at a relatively affordable price: treatments run $300 to $1,500, about a third of the price of a typical face-lift...
...users rinse their noses with water after sniffing to wash away the irritants.) To avoid the impurities of street coke and obtain a greater jolt, more users are resorting to freebasing. After dissolving a substantial quantity of coke in an alkaline (basic) solution, they boil the brew until a whitish lump, or freebase, is left. The lump can be purified further by washing it in a strong solvent. Then it is smoked, often in a water pipe. That way a highly concentrated dose is absorbed into the blood even faster via the lungs than through the nasal membranes...
Hyaline membrane disease occurs because the infant's lungs do not produce enough of a vital substance: pulmonary surfactant, a whitish, soaplike chemical that coats the lungs and keeps airspaces open. Without surfactant, the air sacs in the lungs become stiff and collapse, preventing inhalation, and the lungs become dense and hyaline, or glasslike. The usual recourse has been to supply the baby with oxygen-enriched air (sometimes with the aid of a respirator) until the lungs are mature enough to manufacture a sufficient amount of the chemical. But this involves expensive machines and a long hospital stay that...
...typical crab louse attaches itself to the base of a pubic hair, burrows into the skin, feeds on the host's blood, and lays visible whitish eggs, Dr. Nicholas Fiumara, head of the communicable disease department of the Massachusetts department of pubic health said yesterday...
...device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have drawn the arc of t rainbow across the sky, unveiling the cathedral as it goes. Every surface - the mudguards of the cart no less than the slowly sliding water - sparkles with a whitish impasto, virginal and dense...