trachoma
/trəˈkəʊmə
/noun [mass noun]
A contagious bacterial infection of the eye, causing inflamed granulation on the inner surface of the lids.
- The disease is caused by the chlamydial organism Chlamydia trichomatis.
- Other diseases include hepatitis, trachoma, and tuberculosis.
- I saw the Chlamydial eye disease trachoma in the poor of Glasgow and lymphogranuloma in soldiers from a military hospital STD clinic in 1940 before the cause was known.
Derivatives
trachomatous
- About 7.6 million people have trachomatous trichiasis, the blinding stage of this infectious disease.
- Management of trachomatous cicatricial entropion of the upper eye lid presents a difficult problem.
- The distribution of abnormal eyelashes by the severity of trachomatous trichiasis is given in Table 3.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Greek trakhōma 'roughness', from trakhus 'rough'.
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