BLEPHARITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blepharitis mean? 

• BLEPHARITIS (noun)
  The noun BLEPHARITIS has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts

  Familiarity information: BLEPHARITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLEPHARITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("blepharitis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include pink eye, blepharitis, and trachoma.

(Eye Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A bismuth derivative of tetrabromopyrocatechol used as a topical ointment for the treatment of blepharitis.

(Bibrocathol, NCI Thesaurus)