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Trachoma   Listen
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Trachoma  n.  (Med.) A contagious granular conjunctivitis caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. It is a chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva






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"Trachoma" Quotes from Famous Books



... than his wife, though none more able—a young oculist who specializes in trachoma, and makes no complaint of lack of practice; two trained teachers to help in the classrooms; even a clergyman fresh from his seminary to take the place left vacant by Philip, greatly to the satisfaction of Bates ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... families in a log hut, gathered about a letter which they had just received from their boy who was at a Government School in California. When we had read the letter, the father of the family, Albert Cesspouch, a man of about forty-five, blind from trachoma, which affects so many of the Indians, stood up and drawing his blanket around him held up his hand to signify that he was going ...
— Hidden from the Prudent - The 7th William Penn Lecture, May 8, 1921 • Paul Jones



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