Ophthalmitis

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  • noun. Inflammation of the eye.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Inflammation of the eyeball or some part of it.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. severe conjunctivitis; ophthalmia.
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  • noun. severe conjunctivitis
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  • noun. severe conjunctivitis
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    cross-reference
    conjunctivitis  pinkeye  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conjunctivitis  pinkeye  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    ophthalmia neonatorum  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ophthalmia  
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