Citations:follicles of Meibomius


 * 1815, Samuel Cooper, The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, second American edition, Justin Hinds, pages 202–203:
 * Professor Scarpa asserts that the chief part of the yellow viscid matter which accumulates in the lachrymal sac is secreted by the lining of the eyelids, and by the little glands of Meibomius, and that the altered quality of this secretion has a principal share in the cause of the disease. He states that the truth of this fact may at once be ascertained by everting the eyelids, and especially the lower one of the affected side, and by comparing them with those of the opposite eye. The former will constantly exhibit an unnatural redness of the internal membrane, which appears villous along the whole extent of the tarsus, while the edges are swollen, and numerous varicose vessels are distributed on its surface. The follicles of Meibomius are also turgid and prominent.
 * 1852, George Mendenhall, The Medical Student's Vade Mecum, third edition, Lindsay and Blakiston, page 172:
 * What secretes the tears? The lachrymal gland; but, as we generally meet with them, they are mixed with the secretions of the conjunctiva, caruncula lachrymalis, and follicles of Meibomius.
 * 1852, E. E. Marcy, The Homœopathic Theory and Practice of Medicine, second edition, William Radde, page 621:
 * This is a small boil-like swelling in the edge of the eyelid, resembling in size and general appearance a barleycorn. It generally commences in the follicles of Meibomius, near the angle of the eye, soon assumes a dark red or purple colour, and becomes quite painful from the violence of the accompanying inflammation.
 * 1858, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, revised edition, Blanchard and Lea, page 193:
 * CHASSIE (F.), Lema, Lippa, Glama, Glemē, Gra'mia, Lemos'itas, Sebum palpebra'lē; the gum of the eye, (Prov.) Gound or Gownde, from chasser, 'to drive out.' A sebaceous humour, secreted mainly by the follicles of Meibomius, which sometimes glues the eyelids together.