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PROSPHYSIS

\pɹˈɒsfəsˌɪs], \pɹˈɒsfəsˌɪs], \p_ɹ_ˈɒ_s_f_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\

Definitions of PROSPHYSIS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science

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A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

pros'-fi-sis, n. morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. [Gr.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

In a more limited sense, this word means morbid adhesion of the eyelids, either between themselves, or with the globe of the eye; Ankylobleph'aron.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

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