Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the eyeball or some part of it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) severe conjunctivitis; ophthalmia.
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- noun severe
conjunctivitis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun severe conjunctivitis
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Examples
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After a traumatic ophthalmitis of the left and sympathetic inflammation of the right eye in a boy of nine, Schenck observed that a group of cilia of the right upper lid and nearly all the lashes of the upper lid of the left eye, which had been enucleated, turned silvery-white in a short time.
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After a traumatic ophthalmitis of the left and sympathetic inflammation of the right eye in a boy of nine, Schenck observed that a group of cilia of the right upper lid and nearly all the lashes of the upper lid of the left eye, which had been enucleated, turned silvery-white in a short time.
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