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Definition of Milium
1. Noun. A small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland.
Generic synonyms: Blemish, Defect, Mar
Group relationships: Cutis, Skin, Tegument
Definition of Milium
1. a small, whitish lump in the skin [n -IA]
Medical Definition of Milium
1. A small subepidermal keratin cyst, usually multiple and therefore commonly referred to in the plural. Synonym: sebaceous tubercle, tuberculum sebaceum, whitehead. Origin: L. Millet (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milium
Literary usage of Milium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"Sloane, 1600, •• milium Indicum." Morison. 1699, "milium majus ... in use as
early as any names more distinctive than milium or panicum. ..."
2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1901)
"milium consists in the development of small, round, whitish formations, ...
milium, anatomically, is a very small sebaceous tumor, covered with epidermis ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1891)
"This definition of the ordinary milium is still generally accepted in the ...
In attributing to ordinary milium the same etiology as to colloid milium, ..."
4. Essentials of diseases of the skin by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1899)
"milium consists in the formation of small, whitish or yellowish, rounded, pearly,
... What is the course of milium ? The lesions develop slowly, ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1911)
"CONGENITAL milium IN ... Under this term Crocker has described two cases of his
which correspond histologically to the embryonic type of milium of Robinson. ..."
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