stye

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sty 1

 (stī)
n. pl. sties (stīz)
A pigsty.
[Middle English, from Old English stig.]

sty 2

also stye  (stī)
n. pl. sties also styes (stīz)
Inflammation of one or more sebaceous glands of an eyelid.
[Alteration of Middle English styanye : styan, sty (from Old English stīgend, from present participle of stīgan, to rise; see steigh- in Indo-European roots) + eye, ye, eye; see eye.]
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stye

(staɪ) or

sty

n, pl styes or sties
(Pathology) inflammation of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid, usually caused by bacteria. technical name hordeolum
[C15 styanye (mistakenly taken as sty on eye), from Old English stīgend rising, hence swelling, stye + ye eye]
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stye

A painful, red, bacterial infection around the stem of an eyelash.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stye - an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelidstye - an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
eye infection, hordeolum, sty
infection - the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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Translations
وَدْقَه، شَحّاد العَيْن
Gerstenkorn
conjonctivite
vogrís
свинарникхлевячмень
睑腺炎麦粒肿

stye

[ˈstaɪ] n (MEDICINE) → orgelet m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sty2,

stye

(stai) – plurals sties ~styes – noun
a small inflamed swelling on the eyelid.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

sty

, stye
n. orzuelo, condición inflamatoria de las glándulas sebáceas del párpado.
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We interviewed also through a grating in a mud wall closing a blind alley an immensely corpulent Ital ian, who, the ex-sergeant-major remarked to me perfunctorily, had "killed another man last year." Thereupon he addressed him as "Antonio" and "Old Buck," though that bloated carcase, appar ently more than half filling the sort of cell where in it sat, recalled rather a fat pig in a stye. Fa miliar and never unbending, the sergeant chucked --absolutely chucked--under the chin a horribly wrinkled and shrivelled old hag propped on a stick, who had volunteered some sort of information: and with the same stolid face he kept up an animated conversation with the groups of swathed brown women, who sat smoking cheroots on the door-steps of a long range of clay hovels.
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Outside the yard he had run a strong fence of oaken posts, split, and set pretty close together, while inside he had built twelve styes near one another for the sows to lie in.
As he spoke he bound his girdle round him and went to the styes where the young sucking pigs were penned.
Thus did they converse, and presently the swineherds came up with the pigs, which were then shut up for the night in their styes, and a tremendous squealing they made as they were being driven into them.
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You're more likely to develop a stye if you | touch your eyes with unwashed hands, or if you fail to clean your contact lenses or put them in without washing your hands.
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"It is advisable that sufferer or patient is immediately referred to a qualified medical professional," said the doctor mentioning that warm and cold compresses could be the basic treatment is case of eye stye. According to the doctors sharing of towels and similar personal belongings must be avoided as infections mostly spread through hands, clothes and other usable items.
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More often than not, it rebounded and hit you full in the face, making you look as if you had a stye! This brings me back to the real thing this week and the "granny" cure: "Just rub it with a gold ring!" Now my eye was painful to look at, let alone touch with metal, so I did something my grandma couldn't.
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A stye, an infection of the tear or oil gland that usually requires no treatment.
Why is my eyelid swollen?
There were 3(0.79%) patients with stye, and 2(0.53%) each with adenoviral conjunctivitis and papilloedema.
Aetiology of headache in clinical ophthalmic practice at a tertiary care hospital of Karachi
Prevalence of Eye Problems among Study Subjects Eye Problems Total n = 1265 Percentages [%] Defective Vision 172 13.6 Squamous Blepharitis 156 12.3 Conjunctivitis 59 4.7 Vernal Conjunctivitis 64 5.1 Stye 9 0.7 Squint 10 0.8 Conjunctival Xerosis 35 2.8 Total 505 39.9 Table II.
Socio-demographic correlates of ocular morbidity in school children of Rural Haryana
The club's Jo Thompson said: "In true Coventry Blaze Academy stye, the response was amazing.
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