Albu'go

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 128

Albu'go is a term employed in Surgery to designate the white opacity that often follows ulceration of the cornea of the eye. In infancy, the comparatively rapid interchange of materials will often diminish to a great extent both the extent and density of these spots; but in after-life they do not undergo similar absorption, nor are they amenable to surgical relief. The disease is also called Leucoma.

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