milium
noun
a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.
milia
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pluralof milium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tiny white bumps that occur mostly on the face, especially around the eyes, milia are basically pores that are clogged with sebum and oil and have a layer of skin that has grown over them.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022
But it is only in the Life by Probus that Andes is described as a ‘vicus,’ and there it is said to be distant from Mantua ‘xxx milia passuum.’
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Half in earnest we waved our hands to them and shouted our greetings to them in the native—punda milia, kongoni, pa-a, fice, m'pofu, twiga, simba, n'grooui, and the rest.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
