epiphora

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• Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye.

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  1. In pathology, watery eye, in which the tears, from increased secretion or some disease of the lacrymal passages, accumulate in front of the eye and trickle over the cheek.
  2. In rhetoric, same as epistrophe.

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  • • Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἐπιφορά, a bringing to or upon, an addition, a sudden attack; in medicine, a defluxion (of humors); in rhetoric, the second clause in a sentence; in logic, a conclusion; from ἐπιφέρειν, put or lay upon, bring to or upon, from ἐπί, upon, to, + φέρειν = English bear.
 

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