phlyctenular
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek a blister or pustule.
Adjective
phlyctenular (not comparable)
- (medicine) Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules.
- phlyctenular ophthalmia
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for phlyctenular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)