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TRACHOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trachoma mean?
• TRACHOMA (noun)
The noun TRACHOMA has 1 sense:
1. a chronic contagious disease caused by a bacterium and marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue
Familiarity information: TRACHOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chronic contagious disease caused by a bacterium and marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("trachoma" is a kind of...):
eye disease (any disease of the eye)
Context examples
Representative examples include pink eye, blepharitis, and trachoma.
(Eye Infection, NCI Thesaurus)
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