conjunctivitis arida

1. 1.

   abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes; may be due to a systemic deficiency of vitamin A

   Synonymsxerophthalmiaxerophthalmusxeroma

   Broaderdryness

Questions about conjunctivitis arida

What does conjunctivitis arida mean?

conjunctivitis arida means "abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes; may be due to a systemic deficiency of vitamin A".

What is another word for conjunctivitis arida?

Close synonyms include xerophthalmia, xerophthalmus, xeroma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conjunctivitis arida a common word?

conjunctivitis arida is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.