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▪ I. miliary, a. (and n.)|ˈmɪlɪərɪ|
[ad. L. miliārius pertaining to millet, f. milium mill n.2, millet1: see -ary.]
1. Phys. and Path. Resembling a millet-seed in size or form; resembling an aggregation of millet-seeds. miliary gland: one of the sebaceous glands of the skin. miliary tubercle: a greyish-white spherical body about the size of a millet-seed, common in diseased tissues of the lungs and in the membrane of the brain.
1685Boyle Salubr. Air 23 The minute or miliary Glandules of the Skin. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. i. vi. 325 Between these Scales the Excretory Ducts of the Miliary Glands of the true Skin open. 1725Huxham in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 380 There would appear in the Interstices of the Pox several miliary Pustules. 1816Keith Phys. Bot. I. 68 The miliary glands of animals. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 325 We find a great many ulcers in the intestines, and in most of these, small miliary tubercles. 1854Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. (1875) 241 The deposit of tubercle..occurs in the shape of small miliary granules. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 478 A firm, miliary or prurigo-like papular projection.
2. Path. Attended or characterized by spots or vesicles resembling millet-seeds or an aggregation of millet-seeds. miliary fever: a specific disease characterized by the presence of a rash resembling measles, the spots of which exhibit in their centres minute vesicles of the form of millet-seed.
1737D. Hamilton (title) A Treatise of a Miliary Fever. 1742H. Walpole Let. to Mann 15 Apr., The Duchess of Cleveland died last night of what they call a miliary fever. 1844T. J. Graham Dom. Med. 647 It [scarlet fever] may be distinguished from miliary fever by the miliary eruption being..attended by considerable perspiration. 1874Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XIV. 311 A form of grey degeneration occurring in the brain and spinal cord, and designated by Drs. Batty Tuke and Rutherford, ‘miliary sclerosis’.
3. Nat. Hist. Having numerous small granulations or projections. miliary gland (Bot.), a stoma or stomate.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xviii. (1765) 211 Miliary, like grains of Millet. 1836Loudon Encycl. Plants 655 Citron Medica... The outer [rind] thin, with innumerable miliary glands. Gloss., Miliary, granulate, resembling many seeds. 1852Dana Crust. i. 447 A smooth even surface, excepting a neat miliary granulation. 1866Treas. Bot., Miliary Glands, the same as Stomates.
b. miliary sized: having the size of millet-seeds.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 592 It [sc. the polygonal papule of lichen] is miliary to pepper-corn sized.
4. As n. Zool. A minute tubercle on the shell or skin of some animals (Webster 1897).
▪ II. miliary
obs. form of milliary. |