vernal conjunctivitis

[ vûr′nəl ]

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A chronic form of conjunctivitis affecting both eyes, characterized by abnormal sensitivity to light and intense itching that recurs seasonally during warm weather.spring conjunctivitis

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How to use vernal conjunctivitis in a sentence

According to the CDC and most texts, conjunctivitis has three distinct causes.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Bob Costas’s Olympic Pinkeye|Kent Sepkowitz|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or perhaps he caught a mild viral form of pinkeye—medically known as conjunctivitis.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Bob Costas’s Olympic Pinkeye|Kent Sepkowitz|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The newly-vernal sun beat down hot last Friday afternoon in the Palestinian West Bank village of Bi'lin.
After Victory, Palestinian Village Runs Into A Wall|Ali Gharib|April 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Pseudomembranous conjunctivitis generally shows either streptococci or diphtheria bacilli.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

The usual cause of acute infectious conjunctivitis, especially in cities, seems to be the Koch-Weeks bacillus.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Happy it was beyond any other time, except perhaps a few vernal days of boyhood, but it was unmarked by any incidents.
Julian Home|Dean Frederic W. Farrar
Commonly the pneumonia bacteria do not cause conjunctivitis unless the patient is susceptible in a special manner.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Did you ever cure a catarrhal conjunctivitis or rhinitis in three minutes by moving the patient from one room to another?
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw