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‖ trichiasis Path.|trɪkɪˈeɪsɪs, trɪˈkaɪəsɪs| [Late L., a. Gr. τριχίᾱσις (Galen), f. τριχιᾶν to be hairy.] a. Introversion of the eye-lashes; also, growth of an extra row of eye-lashes beneath the normal ones. b. A disease in which small filamentous bodies are passed in the urine: = pilimiction. c. A disease of the breasts in suckling women, in which the nipples crack into fine fissures.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 340 The trichiasis, when haires grow under the natural, and prick the eye. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Trichiasis,..hairy Urine, such as by reason of pituitous Humours Hairs seem to swim in. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trichiasis, or Trichosis, a growing of much Hair: Also a fault in the Eye⁓lids when there is a double row of Hairs. 1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 82/2 One of the operations for trichiasis is to extirpate the roots of the eye-lashes. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex., Trichiasis... This name has been given..1. To a disease of the kidneys or bladder, in which filamentous substances, resembling hairs, are passed in the urine... 2. To a painful swelling of the breasts, in child-bed women, when the milk is excreted with difficulty. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 312 The hair bulbs may become displaced, causing the eyelashes to be misdirected—‘trichiasis’. |