Synonyms for trachoma
trəˈkoʊ mətra·choma

Princeton's WordNet

1. trachomanoun

   a chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue

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1. Tom Millar:

   Now they've mapped the whole country and they almost have funding and support to deliver all the interventions for the country, they are now talking about when they eliminate trachoma.

2. Tom Millar:

   In countries like Ethiopia( prevalence) is mind-numbingly, shockingly high – in some communities over 50 percent of the population have trachoma.

3. Fuseini Kwadja:

   Trachoma is a household problem.

4. Dirk Engels:

   So for diseases like elephantiasis, Guinea worm disease, schistosomiasis, the intestinal worms and trachoma, you can regularly treat people with safe, single dose drugs and then they never actually build up a worm load that could cause them problems.

5. Jeremy Keenan:

   The study shows we can prevent young children from dying with a simple intervention, we could scale our newly studied intervention to reach millions of vulnerable children in resource-poor countries, in much the same way that trachoma programs, which give children and adults a single dose of azithromycin each year, have been doing for years.