trachoma
trachoma
Definition
tra·choma (trə kō′mə)
noun
a contagious infection of the conjunctiva and cornea, caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia trachomatis) and characterized by granulation and eventual scar formation
Etymology: ModL < Gr trachōma, roughness < trachys, rough: see trachea
tra·chom′a·tous (-käm′ə təs, -kō′mə-) adjective
trachoma
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- blind: It now includes coverage of the SAFE strategy for the elimination of blinding trachoma.
- eliminate: The donated Zithromax will massively aid ORBIS's efforts to implement the World Health Organization's, SAFE Strategy and eliminate trachoma in Ethiopia.
- prevent: Keeping the face clean of all the children and the family prevents trachoma for the whole community at the end.
- have: In Ethiopia alone, more than 10 million people have active trachoma.
- control: Hence, measures to control trachoma should have two main goals.
- reduce: Current evidence does not however support a beneficial effect of face washing alone or in combination with topical tetracycline in reducing active trachoma.
Preposition: in
- community: The middle level describes the presence and severity of ' active ' trachoma in the community.
- child: Active trachoma in children in central Ethiopia, association with altitude.
Adjective modifier
- active: In Ethiopia alone, more than 10 million people have active trachoma.
- e.g.: These include infections of the skin and eyes ( e.g. trachoma ) and infections carried by lice, e.g. louse-borne epidemic typhus.
- infectious: Effect of a single mass antibiotic distribution on the prevalence of infectious trachoma.
- inflammatory: Latrine ownership as a protective factor in inflammatory trachoma in Egypt.
Modifies a noun
- endemic: In most trachoma endemic areas there are not enough ophthalmologists to perform the required number of TT surgeries.
- control: Water supplies which are good for health in general are also best for trachoma control.
- program: In Niger the trachoma control program printed fabric that people made into clothes.
- prevention: Carter Center The Carter Center has been involved in many innovative and exciting trachoma community prevention programs.
- area: In most trachoma endemic areas there are not enough ophthalmologists to perform the required number of TT surgeries.
- infection: Face washing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the trachoma infection.
Noun used with modifier
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