stye


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Synonyms for stye

an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

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"And I went on and on, all about his stye. I actually remember showing that tape of the wedding speech to the producers of Four Weddings when I was auditioning for that part.
Soak a clean cloth in very warm water and press against the stye. Hold it for 20 minutes and repeat three or four times a day.
Thankfully there are many ways you can treat a stye, and hasten it's departure.
Table 1: Number of Students Screened Number of Number of Number of Students Students with any Students with Examined Eye Problems Refractive Errors Urban 2543 276 77 Rural 2753 373 101 Total 5296 649 176 Table 2: Eye Screening by sex Number of Number of Students Students with any Number of Students Sex Examined Eye Problems with Refractive Errors Male 2482 266 85 Female 2814 383 91 Total 5296 649 176 Table 3: Diagnosis report Diagnosis Male % Female % Total % Refractive error 85 1.6% 91 1.72% 176 3.32% Vernal conjunctivitis 79 1.49% 83 1.57% 162 3.06% Infective Conjunctivitis 44 0.8% 37 0.7% 81 1.5% stye 4 0.076% 1 0.02% 5 0.096% Corneal Opacity 2 0.04% 0 -- 2 0.04% Colour Blindness 0 -- 1 0.02% 1 0.02% others 12 0.23% 15 0.28% 27 0.51%
Q Over the winter I have had a number of styes on one eye.
Repeated styes can be due to diabetes so get the doctor to check your urine.
Bridges and buildings decorated by juvenile daubing, windows etched with scratched signatures and filthy language, station signs made unreadable: they accompany us from New Street to Euston like a nagging stye.
Nevertheless her paintings here are not without interest, not least in the archaisms, latent in her stye, which the National residency has brought out.
Not unlike a stye, acne occurs when a a pore gets clogged with dirt or oil.
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A stye usually comes to a head and bursts within four or five days.
Indeed, I wasn't even a distant twinkle in the eye - or a stye in the eye, as my Scottish mother would say when in a gloomy mood.
The track, lifted from his Last Night album, comes in a sheaf of mixes from Crookers, Seamus Haji, Holy Ghost, Popof, Stye of Eye and Eric Prydz.
A A STYE is a bacterial infection in a lash follicle.