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KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does keratoconjunctivitis mean?
• KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS (noun)
The noun KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS has 1 sense:
1. inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva
Familiarity information: KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("keratoconjunctivitis" 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
M. bovis is pathogenic, being the causative agent of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis.
(Moraxella bovis, NCI Thesaurus)
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