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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Xerophthalmia

· Xe·roph·thal·mi·a · IPA
01 n. An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.
  1. 1.
    An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.(Med.)