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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 tissueplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TRACHOMA (noun)


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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