How To Use Epiphora In A Sentence
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Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
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We present the case of a 25 year old male who was admitted for the treatment of a swelling in the right lacrimal area with complaints of epiphora.
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• Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye.
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A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe.
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Two patients had been subject to recurrent dacryocystitis, 3 were subject to epiphora and recurrent dacryocystitis and the others were subject to intolerable epiphora ranging from 6 months to ‘years’.
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The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178.
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But Webster's Third defines epiphora as a watering of the eyes while defining epistrophe as the "repetition of the same word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences ...
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This results in tears pooling in the cul-de-sac produced by the lower lid ectropion and resultant epiphora.
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I confirm that Webster's Third defines epiphora as "watering of the eyes," a definition reassuringly similar to the first definition the OED gives for the same term.
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So far, so good -- although the OED's second definition, labeled Rhet., suggests that at least in the past epiphora did mean "a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses" (if I may quote from Mr.McC. 's letter again).
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The eye is the most sensitive organ in riot control because CS causes epiphora, blepharospasm, a burning sensation, and visual problems.
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At about the point I read about epiphora, however, my eyes began to water -- in the act of complaining about "inconsistencies and inaccuracies," Mr.McC. is contributing several more inconsistencies to the pages of VERBATIM.
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These tumours tend to go unnoticed until obstruction or compression of structures occurs, resulting in symptoms such as diplopia, epiphora or nasal obstruction.
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This results in tears pooling in the cul-de-sac produced by the lower lid ectropion and resultant epiphora.
