trachoma

(trS-ko'mah) [G. trachys, rough, harsh.] Contagious granular conjunctivitis, granular lids; a chronic contagious inflammation, with hypertrophy, of the conjunctiva, marked by the formation of minute grayish or yellowish translucent granules of adenoid ti ue, brawny t., a condition in which there is a general lymphoid infiltration of the conjunctiva without marked granulation, diffuse' t., a form in which the granulations are of large size, approaching brawny t. follic'ular t., gran'ular t., the ordinary form of t. marked by the presence of granulations on the conjunctiva, pap'illary t., a form in which the granulations are acuminate and red. t. bod'y, Prowazek-Greef body, the supposed microbic cause of trachoma, t. def or'mans, t. pudendorum with cicatricial contractions of the altered mucous membrane, t. of the vocal bands, singers' nodes or nodules, vocal nodules, chord it is nodosa or tuberosa. t. pudendo'rum, t. vulvae, kraurosis vulvae.