Associations to the word «Trachoma»

Wiktionary

TRACHOMA, noun. (medicine) An infectious disease of the eyelid caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis.

Dictionary definition

TRACHOMA, noun. A chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats