Associations to the word «Hordeolum»

Wiktionary

HORDEOLUM, noun. Stye, sty. An infection of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid. This is distinguished from a chalazion, which is not infected, but a cyst formed from an impacted meibomian gland of the eyelid.

Dictionary definition

HORDEOLUM, noun. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope