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xerophthalmia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun xerophthalmia has 1 sense
- xerophthalmia(n = noun.state) conjunctivitis arida, xeroma, xerophthalmus - abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes; may be due to a systemic deficiency of vitamin A; Array is a kind of dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
CIDE DICTIONARY
xerophthalmia, n. [L., fr. Gr. ; dry + the eye. See Ophthalmia.].
An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva. [1913 Webster]
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