mucocele

English

Etymology

muco- +‎ -cele

Noun

mucocele (plural mucoceles)

  1. (medicine) An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 mucocele in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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