Definition of Chalazions

1. chalazion [n] - See also: chalazion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalazions

chalan
chalaned
chalaning
chalans
chalasia
chalastic
chalaza
chalazae
chalazal
chalazas
chalaze
chalazes
chalazia
chalaziferous
chalazion
chalazions (current term)
chalcanthite
chalcedonic
chalcedonies
chalcedony
chalcid
chalcid fly
chalcid wasp
chalcidfly
chalcidology
chalcids
chalcis fly
chalco-
chalcoalumite
chalcocite

Literary usage of Chalazions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye: Intended for Surgeons Commencing by Carl Heinrich Weller, George Cunningham Monteath (1821)
"Also the chalazions which we sometimes see originate in old, cachectic, ... chalazions with an uneven nodulated surface, which appear in people who suffer ..."

2. Vaccine Therapy in General Practice by George Henry Sherman (1916)
"Out of ten cases of multiple and recurrent chalazions which he treated by ... and showed no fresh chalazions after first treatment; the other two improved. ..."

3. Annals of Ophthalmology (1904)
"In this case, a man of twenty-six years of age, chalazions repeatedly formed in all of the eyelids. During an attack involving the left lower lid, ..."

4. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"chalazions are small tumors analogous to sebaceous cysts which develop on the eyelids in connection with Meibomian glands. ..."

5. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1892)
"The second group comprises the affections of the pupils : furuncles, eczemas, chalazions (which may have diagnostic value when occurring in old persons); ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"Nonpigmented sarcomas may be mistaken for chalazions, but the history and subsequent course serve to distinguish these affections. The treatment consists in ..."

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