‖ phlyctena, -æna Path.
(flɪkˈtiːnə)
[mod.L., a. Gr. ϕλύκταινα a blister (Hippocr.), f. ϕλύειν, ϕλύζ-ειν to swell.]
An inflammatory vesicle, pimple, or blister upon the cuticle or the eye-ball.
| 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Plyctæna, a Pimple in the Skin; also a little Ulcer in the corneous Tunick of the Eye. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 511 The cuticle often separates in some points from the skin, and the vesications termed phlyctenæ are formed. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 466 The vesication may be so..complete, as to rise from the skin like a pemphigus, bulla, or phlyctena. |
Hence
phlycˈtenar,
phlycˈtenous (
-æn-)
adjs., pertaining to or of the nature of a phlyctena; characterized by or affected with phlyctenæ;
phlycˈtenoid (
-æn-)
a., resembling a phlyctena;
phlycˌtenophˈthalmy, phlyctenular ophthalmia (Mayne
Expos. Lex. 1858);
‖ phlycˈtenula (
-æn-),
pl. -æ [
mod.L.
dim. of
phlyctena], also in anglicized form
phlycˈtenule, a small phlyctena,
esp. upon the conjunctiva or cornea of the eye; whence
phlycˈtenular (
-æn-)
a., pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by phlyctenules.
| 1842 Dunglison Med. Lex., *Phlyctenoid. 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 107 An eruption..phlyctenoid in character. |
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 342 He adds to the two varieties of red and white miliaria a third, which he distinguishes by the name of *phlyctenous. |
| 1842 Dunglison Med. Lex., *Phlyctænula. 1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 33 One or more small phlyctenulæ close upon the margin of the cornea. |
| 1843 Sir T. Watson Princ. & Pract. Physic xix. I. 309 For relieving strumous or *phlyctenular ophthalmia. |
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 746 Similar *phlyctenules appear on the mucous membrane of the mouth, tongue, and palate. |