Trachoma

Definition: Trachoma

Trachoma

Noun

1. A chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue.

Etymology: Trachoma \Tra*cho"ma\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression roughness, from rough.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	A chronic infection of the conjunctiva and cornea caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. (references)
Medicine	A chronic, contagious, viral infection of the conjunctiva and the cornea characterized by the formation of conjunctival follicles, papillary hypertrophy, pannus and subsequent cicatrization. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
tric	English	Trachoma inclusion conjunctivitis	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Trachoma

Specialty definitions using "trachoma": Conjunctivitis, Inclusion, Corneal Neovascularization ♦ Surgery, Antibiotics, Face-washing and Environmental improvement ♦ Water-washed disease. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Trachoma" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Hungarian (trachoma).

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Trachoma (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Guide to the laboratory diagnosis of trachoma (reference) Guide to trachoma control in programmes for the prevention of blindness (reference) The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Trachoma (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Flies can transmit food-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, salmonellosis and dysentery, as well as myiasis, trachoma, and yaws. They breed in organic wastes, refuse and animal excrement. Credit: CDC.		Trachoma clinic patients and representatives from Health Dept. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Typical mountain cabin. All of the family have trachoma. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Members of the trachoma control team examine an elderly patient in a rural area. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard..
	Traveling Trachoma Clinic. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		An improvised operating room at a trachoma clinic in Lebanon, Missouri, 1923. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Dr. Ida Bengston ... and her assistant ... working with a monkey with trachoma. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Trachoma train in Lebanon, Missouri, ca. 1923. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Operating on trachoma patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Trachoma hospital in Jackson, Kentucky. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Blindness due to trachoma has been eliminated from the United States. (references)
		Trachoma is a chronic follicular conjunctivitis that leads to scarring in the conjunctiva and cornea. (references)
		WHO estimates that approximately 6 million cases of blindness due to trachoma and 11 million cases of trichiasis occur yearly. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Trachoma" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trachoma" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "trachoma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trakomë. (various references)

Arabic		‏التراخوما مرض. (various references)

Bulgarian		трахома. (various references)

Chinese		� �眼. (various references)

Danish		trakom, trachom (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), aegyptisk oejensygdom (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)

Dutch		trachoom, trachoma (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), ophthalmia militaris (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), ophthalmia contagiosa (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), ophthalmia bellica (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), ophthalmia aegyptiaca (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), Egyptische oftalmie (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), Egyptische conjunctivits (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), conjunctivitis trachomatosa (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia), conjunctivitis granulosa (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)

Farsi		تراخم(طب). (various references)

Finnish		trakooma. (various references)

French		trachome. (various references)

German		Bindehautenzündung. (various references)

Greek		τράχωμα (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)

Hebrew		�'רע� ת. (various references)

Hungarian		trachoma. (various references)

Italian		tracoma (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)

Pig Latin		achomatray

Portuguese		tracoma (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)

Russian		трахома. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trahom. (various references)

Spanish		tracoma (conjunctivitis, Egyptian ophthalmia, granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, military ophthalmia, war ophthalmia). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "trachoma": trachomas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Trachoma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arachova, Gratchova, Rakhom, teratoma, tracheolar, trachinian, Tracomin, tradcoms, trichoma, trichomes, Tricomp, tricone. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "trachoma" (pronounced 'Tra*cho"ma'): Aboma, Adenoma, Adipoma, Amma, Amphiuma, Analemma, Arapaima, Aroma, Asthma, Atheroma, Bema, Blastema, BRAHMA, Brama, Bregma, Broma, Cauma, Ceroma, Chacma, Chiloma, Chloasma, Chondroma, Cima, Coloboma, Comma, Cosmorama, Croma, Cyclorama, Cytoblastema, Enigma, fibroma, GAMMA, gemma, Georama, Glama, Glaucoma, Glioma, gumma, hematoma, Hypoderma, karma, Kokama, Lecama, lemma, Lepisma, leucoma, Lima, lipoma, llama, Loma. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: achromat.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-m-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: marcato.
	-2 letters: amtrac, chroma, tarmac.
	-3 letters: actor, amort, aorta, arhat, aroma, carat, carom, charm, chart, macho, macro, march, match, mocha, orach, ratch, roach, rotch, taroc, tharm, torah, torch.
	-4 letters: acta, amah, arch, arco, atma, atom, cart, cham, chao, char, chat, coat, coma, corm, cram, haar, harm, hart, hoar, hora, maar, mach, marc, mart, math.
	-5 letters: aah.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-m-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: achromats, trachomas.
	+2 letters: achromatic, camphorate, machinator, matchboard.
	+3 letters: achromatism, achromatize, camphorated, camphorates, lachrymator, machinators, matchboards.
	+4 letters: achromatisms, achromatized, achromatizes, apochromatic, camphorating, chromatogram, chromonemata, lachrymators, metaphorical, metathoraces, metathoracic, microhabitat, panchromatic.
	+5 letters: achromatizing, catastrophism, chromatically, chromatograms, chromatograph, cinematograph, metachromatic, microhabitats, saccharometer.
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