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Miliary (medicine)


miliary


1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.

2. <medicine> Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.

3. <zoology> Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.

Origin: L. Miliarius, fr. Milium millet: cf. F. Miliaire.

<zoology> One of the small tubercles of Echini.

Source: Websters Dictionary