Crossword-Solution: HORDEOLUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hordeolum | n. | A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “HORDEOLUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| stye | 2 answers |
| sty | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HORDEOLUM (3)
Vitus' Dance See chorea stye (hordeolum) Inflamed swelling of a sebaceous gland at the margin of an eyelid.
STYE (HORDEOLUM).--This is a swelling beginning in a gland or glands at the edge of the lid and pus forms finally.
For hordeolum, which is a sore place in the eyelid of the shape of a barley-corn, take nine grains of barley and with each poke the sore, with every one saying the magic words, κυρια κυρια κασσαρια σουρωφβι; then throw away the nine, and do the same with seven; throw away the seven, and do the same with five, and so with three and one.