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Webster 1913 Edition
Hordeolum
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Hor-de′o-lum
,Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
hordeolus
, dim. of hordeum
barley.] (Med.)
A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
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hordeolum
hordeolum
English
Noun
hordeolum (plural hordeola)
- stye, sty. An infection of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid. This is distinguished from a chalazion, which is not infected, but a cyst formed from an impacted meibomian gland of the eyelid.
Translations
infection — see stye
References
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1993