eye infection
2
2.3
- noun
- /aɪ ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
- Specialized
:
infección ocular
- The puppies are being treated for conditions such as mange, earmites, fleas, eye infections, and parasitic infections.
And that will help reduce your risk of getting an eye infection with wearing contacts.
- And that will help reduce your risk of getting an eye infection with wearing contacts.
- Because I mean, no, buy whatever, don't get an eye infection.
- It's Saturday when I'm recording this and I've actually been like I have an eye infection.
Examples
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My success led to demands for medical treatment for scratches and scrapes as well as for headaches, malaria, intestinal parasites, eye infections, dysentery, and other ailments.
Academic text (1996) -
The MRSA strains isolated from simple, uncomplicated community-acquired eye infections are highly resistant to quinolones.
Academic text (2005) -
And that will help reduce your risk of getting an eye infection with wearing contacts.
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Right now I look like I maybe have some sort of eye infection, but hopefully the actual concealer will cover that up a bit.
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Half (50 percent) of those with eye infections were prescribed eye medications, and 21.4 percent were asked to return in one to two weeks.
Academic text (1997) -
The eye ointment is to help prevent eye infections and conjunctivitis that can cause blindness after birth.
Blog text (24) -
She has a contagious eye infection that she does not want to spread to other people in shelters.
Blog text (31) -
"Bay Pharmacy searched their records back to 1985, and the only prescriptions filled by Claudia Van Hoven were for an eye infection and some female problems," Wild Bill says casually over the phone.
Fiction book (1994) -
Some strains of avian flu viruses carried by these wild birds can infect domestic fowl and, in turn, can infect humans, causing fever, cough, sore throat, eye infections, and muscle pain.
Academic text (2007) -
To minimize your risk of an eye infection, buy a new mascara.
Synonyms
1
7.1
A painful red lump on the edge of the eyelid from an infection
A small painful swelling on the edge of the eyelid caused by an infected oil gland
A small painful lump on the edge of the eyelid caused by germs in an oil gland
How Severe
70
3.1
- Specialized
- Specialized
2
2.3
- Specialized
4
5.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an infection affecting the eye' is directly compositional from 'eye' (the organ) + 'infection' (illness caused by microbes), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE. This noun+noun medical collocation is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding patterns, making it fully transparent.
Etymology
The term eye infection comes from the simple image of tiny germs getting into the eye or a small oil gland on the eyelid and causing redness, pain and swelling. So eye infection means 'an infection affecting the eye', often of the eyelid gland.