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Webster 1913 Edition
Epiphora
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E-piph′o-ra
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr.
ἐπιφορά
, fr. ἐπιφέρειν
to bring to or upon; ἐπί
+ φέρειν
to bring.] 1.
(Med.)
The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.
2.
(Rhet.)
The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.
Definition 2024
epiphora
epiphora
English
Noun
epiphora (plural epiphoras)
- (rhetoric) epistrophe
- (medicine) excessive tear production usually a result from an irritation of the eye
- (botany) Polystachya (a genus of orchids)