stye
IPA: stˈaɪ
noun
- (pathology) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.
- Archaic form of sty (“shelter for pigs”). [A pen or enclosure for swine.]
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Examples of "stye" in Sentences
- Surgery is the last resort in stye treatment.
- Stye-The scientific name for a stye is a hordeolum.
- _What is the treatment of a "stye" on the eye-lid_?
- Stye prevention is closely related to proper hygiene.
- The condition can sometimes lead to a chalazion or a stye.
- I did not care for Bush II, but I like his stye about leading.
- A chalazion or meibomian cyst can sometimes be mistaken for a stye.
- It's just a stye and it should clear itself fully in a matter of days.
- The article is riddled with this stye and in my opinion needs rewriting.
- In the article it is said that a stye lasts from up to 3 weeks to 2 years.
- The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter.
- A system like this would make both lists AND current stye categories obsolete.
- = -- A stye is a boil on the eyelid; it begins at the root of a hair as a hard swelling which may extend to the whole lid.
- Because my bus leaves soon and I have a stye in my eye so large I can hardly see the computer screen, I'll break down the trip by its highlights:
- Eyelid infection, caused by a stye was the official diagnosis, and I was given some erthomycin and told to get the stye lanced if it did not get better in a few days.
- Combining the old with the new, Hockey exhibits this digital series in an old fashion stye exhibit, displaying various drawings together in a geometric grid-like manner.
- I am extremely close to someone who has been in the New Orleans home of one of your aforementioned celebrities and it is a pig stye … so no worries, life gets messy, I on the other hand am being stalked by a rather large and angry looking dust bunny right now …