thickening

Preposition: of

• skin: A corn is caused due to a localized thickening of the skin due to pressure.
• muscle: The disorder restricts the efficient pumping of blood round the body owing to a thickening of the heart muscle.
• wall: There is a diffuse thickening of the gastric wall.
• blood: Failure to wrap up can lead to thickening of the blood, perhaps even a fatal clot.
• lining: This prevents the thickening of the lining of the uterus.
• layer: Chronic irritation is also likely to cause a thickening of the mucous layer.

Converse of object

• cause: Chronic irritation is also likely to cause a thickening of the mucous layer.
• show: On chest x-rays the signs are often not very definite and may possibly only show a slight thickening of the pleura.
• have: Anyone who has pleural thickening can be at higher risk of asbestos related diseases.

Adjective modifier

• pleural: Anyone who has pleural thickening can be at higher risk of asbestos related diseases.
• crustal: Vertical stretching and crustal thickening at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Himalaya: a model for distributed continental deformation during mountain building.
• diffuse: There is a diffuse thickening of the gastric wall.
• bilateral: He was found to be suffering from bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.
• fibrous: Neuroma - a fibrous thickening of a nerve caused by reaction to long-standing irritation.

Modifies a noun

agent: Fresh bread crumbs can be added as a thickening agent and tomato juice can be used instead of stock for a richer taste.

Noun used with modifier

• skin: Skin problems ie thickening of the skin, scabs in the fur or loss of prickles, will also need veterinary treatment.
• wall: Fibril -- spiral wall thickenings in the hyaline cells.
• sludge: Audit guidelines and tools and procedures were developed to enable focussed audits of sludge thickening plant.
• shear: A stress hysteresis is found in the shear thickening regime.
• cloud: Here there was patchy thin cloud with sunshine at first with the cloud thickening during the morning.