milium

American  

[mil-ee-uhm] / ˈmɪl i əm /

noun

Pathology.

milia plural

1. a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.

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milium British  

/ ˈmɪlɪəm /

noun

1. pathol a small whitish nodule on the skin, usually resulting from a clogged sebaceous gland

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• milia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of milium

1350–1400; Middle English mylium < New Latin, Latin: millet

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

milium milia

No. It can scarcely be confounded with milium, as in this latter disease the lesion has no open outlet, no black point, and the contents cannot be squeezed out.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

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 Sellar, W. Y.

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 White, Stewart Edward