Sentence examples for become thickened from inspiring English sources

In many cases the nails become thickened, irregularly laminated, and brittle.

The petiole, when present, and the leaf base become thickened, and often the latter expands laterally and fully or partially encloses the stem.

Their walls become thickened and woody.

The synovial fold can become thickened and sometimes inflamed.

In PC, the fingernails and toenails become thickened, yellow- gray, and transversely overcurved with marked subungual hyperkeratosis, most notably at the distal end.

This depot is highly vascularized and may become thickened in morbidly obese subjects, while its resection may prevent obstruction after gastric banding (18, 20).

The conjunctiva becomes thickened and roughened, and deformation may result.

To withstand the chronic increase in intraluminal pressure, the vessel wall becomes thickened and stronger.

A bicuspid aortic valve is not necessarily life-threatening, but in some persons it becomes thickened and obstructed (stenotic).

The mesodermal layer adjoining the notochord becomes thickened and, by transverse crevices, subdivided into sections called somites.

They probably developed when broad bands of the lithosphere were compressed from the sides and became thickened, folding and thrusting surface materials upward.