Trachoma

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trachoma \Tra*cho"ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? roughness, fr. ?
     rough.] (Med.)
     a contagious granular conjunctivitis caused by the bacterium
     {Chlamydia trachomatis}. It is a chronic inflammation of the
     conjunctiva -- {Tra*chom"a*tous}, a.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trachoma
       n : a chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of
           the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation
           of scar tissue

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "trachoma":
     ablepsia, amaurosis, benightedness, blepharitis, blind side,
     blind spot, blindfolding, blinding, blindness, blurring the eyes,
     cataract, cecity, choroiditis, conjunctivitis, cross-eye, darkness,
     defective vision, depriving of sight, detached retina,
     dim-sightedness, drop serene, economic blindness, esotropia,
     ever-during dark, excecation, eye defect, eyelessness, glaucoma,
     gutta serena, hoodwinking, iritis, keratitis, lack of vision,
     making blind, niphablepsia, optic neuritis, partial blindness,
     pink eye, psychic blindness, reduced sight, retinoblastoma,
     sightless eyes, sightlessness, snow blindness, soul-blindness,
     spiritual blindness, stone-blindness, sty, total blindness,
     unenlightenment, unseeingness, uveitis, walleye