Trachomatous

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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.]