keratitis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of keratitis
Example Sentences
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Microbial keratitis is one of the most serious potential complications for contact lens wearers.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
Infections have presented in a variety of ways, the CDC said, including through keratitis, sepsis and respiratory and urinary tract infections.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
Huxley fell ill as a teenager with an eye condition called keratitis; he would struggle with his eyesight for decades afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2016
These infections are clinically known as keratitis, an infection of the cornea, the clear dome that covers the colored part of the eye.
From US News ● Nov. 13, 2014
The severe affections of the eye described by continental writers—blennorrhoea, keratitis, iritis, etc.—are certainly very rare in this country as complications of measles.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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