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ptilosis
1. A disease of the eyelids in which their edges become swollen and inflamed and the eyelashes fall off.
2. Pterylosis (arrangement of pterylae [bird's feather tracts or skin areas on which feathers grow] and apteria [naked or down-covered surfaces between pterylae] in birds).
3. Etymology: Greek ptilosis (from ptil(on), "feather, plumage" plus -osis, "a disease".
2. Pterylosis (arrangement of pterylae [bird's feather tracts or skin areas on which feathers grow] and apteria [naked or down-covered surfaces between pterylae] in birds).
3. Etymology: Greek ptilosis (from ptil(on), "feather, plumage" plus -osis, "a disease".
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ptilo-, ptil-, ptilono- +
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