dry eye


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dry eye

n.
Keratoconjunctivitis characterized by decreased tear flow and thickening and hardening of the cornea and conjunctiva.
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'What happier women might have thought of his sermon I cannot say; there was not a dry eye among us at the Refuge.
His lips were firm, his chin prominent, he had a hard, dry eye, and his manner was precise and formal.
Maston had found in his own dry eyes one ancient tear, which he had doubtless reserved for the occasion.
It was not with dry eyes that Jones heard this narrative; when it was ended he took Mrs Miller apart with him into another room, and, delivering her his purse, in which was the sum of L50, desired her to send as much of it as she thought proper to these poor people.
The three now rose in silence with dry eyes. The tears had been scorched away by contact with their burning cheeks and eyelids.
This little sermon she spoke with a gentle solemn voice, and dry eyes, until she came to the account of their meeting--then the discourse broke off suddenly, the tender heart overflowed, and taking the boy to her breast, she rocked him in her arms and wept silently over him in a sainted agony of tears.
I waited behind her chair, and was pained to behold Catherine, with dry eyes and an indifferent air, commence cutting up the wing of a goose before her.
M2 PRESSWIRE-August 28, 2019-: Global Dry Eye Disease (DED) Market Insights, Epidemiology and Market Forecast to 2028
Release date- 19082019 - OKYO Pharma Limited (LSE: OKYO), a biotechnology company developing targeted drugs for inflammatory dry eye diseases and chronic pain, is pleased to announce a collaborative agreement with Pedram Hamrah, MD, Ophthalmology Scientist and Cornea Specialist at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, to evaluate proprietary lead compounds, targeting G-protein coupled receptors ('GPCRs'), as non-opioid analgesics.
(NASDAQ: KALA) has received a complete response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration regarding the company's new drug application for KPI-121 0.25% for the temporary relief of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, the company said.
Dry eye is an ocular disease caused due to insufficiency or lack of tears in eye.
Summary: Dry eye is an ocular disease caused due to insufficiency or lack of tears in eye.