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Webster 1913 Edition

Chalazion

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Cha-la′zi-on

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] dim. of [GREEK] hail, pimple.]

(Med.)

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.