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OPACIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opacification mean? 

OPACIFICATION (noun)
  The noun OPACIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of becoming cloudy or opaqueplay

  Familiarity information: OPACIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OPACIFICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming cloudy or opaque

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("opacification" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

opacify (become opaque)


 Context examples 


It is characterized by bilateral scarring and opacification of the conjunctivae.

(Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)



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