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milium1|ˈmɪlɪəm|
In 4 mylium, 6 millium.
[a. L. milium millet.]
1. = millet1. Obs. exc. as mod.L. in Pharmacy. Also Bot. the name (Linnæus) of a graminaceous genus, ‘millet-grass’.
1388Wyclif Isa. xxviii. 25 Barli, and mylium, and fetchis. 1535Coverdale Ezek. iv. 10 Take vnto the..growell sede, milium and fitches. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 104 They haue the seed of Millium in great abundance.
b. milium solis: Graymill or Gromwell, Lithospermum officinale. (Cf. millensole.)
[1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clxxx. 487 Gromell is called..in shops and among the Italians Milium solis.] a1648Ld. Herbert in Life (1886) 44 Posset drinks of herbs, as milium solis, saxifragea, &c.
2. Path. An affection of the sebaceous glands in which hard white or yellowish tubercles resembling millet-seeds are produced, immediately below and projecting from the cuticle. Cf. milia.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Milium... Name for a white hard tubercle. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 331 Colloid milium of the skin. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 764 Milium forms firm white or yellowish masses.
b. Surgery. (See quot.)
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Milium Needle, a fine needle with curved hastate point used in skin grafting. |