Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion from the Meibomian glands; lippitude. Also called
blear-eyedness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
disease of theeyelids , involvingchronic inflammation of the margins, with agummy secretion ofsebaceous matter.
Etymologies
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blear + eye
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