The phrase "growing opacity" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in writing and can be used to describe a situation where clarity or transparency is gradually decreasing or becoming less clear. Example: The growing opacity of the company's financial statements caused concern among shareholders.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Haemangioma in a 72-year-old woman, presenting with a slowly growing, superficial breast opacity.
Since Mr Van der Hoeven was responsible for assembling this retail empire, he may be loth to break it up, though that would quickly trim debt.There are growing fears that behind its opacity Ahold might be hiding more fundamental accounting issues.
Far better to have clarity about the meaning of Israel's actions in the West Bank than to have a fait accompli — the growing settler presence — cloaked in governmental opacity about the ultimate objective.
One example would be a small, slowly growing, localised bronchioloalveolar carcinoma showing only ground-glass opacity (GGO) on computed tomography (Kaneko et al, 1996; Sone et al, 1998).
In lung cancer, the presence of ground-glass opacity suggests >50% association with EGF mutation while growing solid component suggests >75% association with p53 expression (Table 4) [ 15].
Despite the administration of antibiotics, however, the mass-like opacity rapidly grew.
Histological analysis of lung sections from normal and 10 week-old K-rasLA1/p53R172HΔg male and female mice showed that white opacities revealed by the MRI analysis correspond to small foci of lung carcinoma growing with lepidic aspect.
The inspiration for SeatSale and for many of Dr. Mann's other recent inventions is his growing alarm at what he calls the totalitarian uses of technology: the omnipresent surveillance cameras hidden behind "ceiling domes of wine-dark opacity" or the daunting licensing agreements anyone has to accede to before running new software or trying out new online services.
"At a time when out-of-pocket payments for health care are increasing, and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high-deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient health care decisions, the opacity of health care pricing is increasingly concerning," the study authors wrote.
2 At a time when out-of-pocket payments for healthcare are increasing, 3 and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient healthcare decisions, 4 5 the opacity of healthcare pricing is increasingly concerning.
