a. Gr. βλέφαρο-ν eyelid; used in numerous terms of Pathology, etc.: as Blepharitis, inflammation of the eyelids. Blepharoplasty, the operation of supplying any deficiency caused by wound or lesion of the eyelid; hence Blepharoplastic a. Blepharospasm, spasm of the orbicular muscle of the eyelids. Blepharostat, an instrument for fixing the eyelid during operations in the eye. (Syd. Soc. Lex.)
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 137. The same relation which blepharospasm [bears] to the lids.
1875. H. Walton, Dis. Eye, 332. Blepharospasm, by which the eyelids are violently and persistently closed.
