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▪ I. ‖ ptilosis1 Path. Obs.|pt-, tɪˈləʊsɪs|
[a. Gr. πτίλωσις disease of the eyelids, f. πτίλος sore-eyed: see -osis.]
A disease of the eyelids, attended with inflammation and loss of the eye-lashes (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1684tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict., Ptylosis, when the Brims of the Eye-lids being grown thick, the Hairs of the Eye-brows fall off. 1799Hooper Med. Dict., Ptilosis.
▪ II. ptiˈlosis2 Ornith. rare.
[f. Gr. πτίλ-ον soft feather, down + -osis.]
Plumage; also, the arrangement of the feathers, = pterylosis.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Ptilosis..term applied by Illiger to the assemblage of feathers or to the plumage of birds. 1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 5 All a bird's feathers, of whatever kind and structure, taken together, constitute its ptilosis or Plumage. |