chemosis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχυμός“juice, fluid, humor”
2. English todaychemosis

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice, fluid, humor”), with reference to edema. By surface analysis, chemo- + -osis, although this is in the nature of a false friend, as the word is not specific to exogenous chemical–induced cases of conjunctival irritation.

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