In severe or more advanced infections, more and more fluid will accumulate in the lobes of the lungs, so the ground glass appearance will progress to a solid white " consolidation."
The most common abnormal finding is " ground glass" opacities, meaning that some portions of the lungs look like a " hazy" shade of gray instead of being black with fine white lung markings for blood vessels.
We'd go out in the yard and feed up to five hundred feet of string through a mixture of ground glass and glue. We'd then hang the line between the trees, leave it to dry.
She held her book very tight, and turned away a moment to wind up the lamp on my desk — it had a ground glass shade with vine leaves, and glass drops around the edge, I remember.
See how dense and opaque they are at the point of attachment, and how filmy and translucent toward the end, so that the peaks back of them are seen dimly, as though you were looking through ground glass.
The room was divided into compartments in the approved manner, between which were screens of ground glass in mahogany framing, to prevent topers in one compartment being put to the blush by the recognitions of those in the next.