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ophthalmia

n. severe inflammation of the eye that may affect either the conjunctiva or deeper structures. Mucous (or catarrhal) ophthalmia is a form of conjunctivitis with a purulent secretion; electric ophthalmia is produced by exposure to the light of an electric welding torch; neuroparalytic ophthalmia is a corneal inflammation with possible ulceration associated with lesions of the trigeminal nerve. See also trachoma.

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agreement

n. in linguistics, the correct relation between the different grammatical elements of a sentence, so that, for example, the number of the verb corresponds to that of its subject, and the number and gender of a pronoun correspond to those of its noun.