hordeolum

n. [医]睑腺炎, 麦粒肿

词形变化

hordeola 复数 hordeola

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

sty stye

上位词 1

infection

词源

Borrowed from Latin hordeolus, diminutive from hordeum (“barley”) + -olus, referring to its resemblance to a grain of barley in appearance and size.

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