stye

English

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Alternative forms

• sty

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aɪ/, X-SAMPA: /staI/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Noun

stye (plural styes)

1. (pathology) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Translations

bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid

• Catalan: urçol (ca)
• Danish: bygkorn (da)
• Dutch: stijg (nl)
• Estonian: odraiva (et)
• Finnish: näärännäppy (fi)
• French: orgelet (fr) m, compère loriot (fr) m
• Galician: tirizó (gl)
• German: Hordeolum (de), Gerstenkorn (de)
• Italian: orzaiolo (it)
• Japanese: 麦粒腫 (ja)
• Lithuanian: miežis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Weeschësser (lb)

• Mandarin: 針眼 (cmn)
• Norwegian: byggkorn (no)
• Persian: گل مژه (fa)
• Polish: jęczmień (pl)
• Portuguese: hordéolo (pt), terçol (pt)
• Russian: ячмень (ru) (jačm'én') m
• Serbo-Croatian: ječmenac (sh)
• Spanish: orzuelo (es)
• Swedish: vagel (sv)
• Thai: ตากุ้งยิง (th)
• Turkish: arpacık (tr)

Synonyms

• hordeolum
• sty

Anagrams

• teys, tyes