THICKENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thickened mean? 

• THICKENED (adjective)
  The adjective THICKENED has 3 senses:

1. made or having become thick

2. having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

3. made thick in consistency

  Familiarity information: THICKENED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THICKENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made or having become thick

Context example:

thickened bronchial arteries

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:

Having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear

Synonyms:

callous; calloused; thickened

Context example:

with a workman's callous hands

Similar:

tough; toughened (physically toughened)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Made thick in consistency

Context example:

dust-thickened saliva

Similar:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

 Context examples 

An autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by thickened and spongy oral mucosa with a white tint.

(Hereditary Mucosal Leukokeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The air about him thickened and grew white while he made a fire and boiled more water.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The thickened bony structures in the mandible and maxilla that contain the sockets of the teeth.

(Alveolar Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)

A thickened surface layer of ectodermal cells found at the end of each limb bud in the developing embryo.

(Apical Ectodermal Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include generalized fatigue, lethargy, increased body weight, pale, edematous and thickened skin, low blood pressure, constipation and cold intolerance.

(Myxedema, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer-related condition in which the gastric wall becomes thickened and rubbery (leather-bottle stomach).

(Linitis plastica, NCI Thesaurus)

The crowd had thickened in front, so that the lame man and the girl had come to a stand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A group of inherited or acquired skin disorders characterized by a dry, thickened, and scaly skin.

(Ichthyosis, NCI Thesaurus)

As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A condition where the stomach wall becomes thickened, rubbery and loses its ability to distend.

(Linitis plastica, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)