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noun
Swelling and/or (especially) edema of the conjunctiva of the eye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
edema of the mucous membrane of the eyeball and eyelid lining
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: edema, oedema, hydrops, dropsy
History
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice, fluid, humor”), with reference to edema. By surface analysis, chemo- + -osis, although this is in the nature of a false friend, as the word is not specific to exogenous chemical–induced cases of conjunctival irritation.
