English word hordeolum comes from Latin hordeum (Barley.), Latin -olus
hordeum (Latin)
Barley.
-olus (Latin)
hordeolus (Latin)
A stye in the eye.
hordeolum (English)
Stye, sty. An infection of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid. This is distinguished from a chalazion, which is not infected, but a cyst formed from an impacted meibomian gland of the eyelid.
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