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Definition of Collyria
1. collyrium [n] - See also: collyrium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collyria
Literary usage of Collyria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ocular Therapeutics by Armand Darier (1903)
"Liquid collyria, their mode of action and of penetration through the lymphatic
spaces into the media of the eye and cranium. —Demonstration by fluoresce'in, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"Of the method of applying collyria, lotions, or solutions to the conjunctiva, it
is necessary to offer a few observations, the importance of a proper ..."
3. The Medical Formulary: Being a Collection of Prescriptions, Derived from the by Benjamin Ellis, Robert Pennell Thomas (1868)
"A. —collyria. These are preparations applied to the eyes. They are sometimes dry,
but generally liquid—consisting of infusions, decoctions, or distilled ..."
4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"collyria, <tc. The word Collyrium, as at present understood, means an eye-water,
but formerly it was applied to any medicine for the eyes, whatever its form ..."
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