Med. Also 7 enchanthis, encanthe. [a. Gr. ἐγκανθίς tumor in the inner corner of the eye, f. ἐν in + κανθός the corner of the eye.] ‘A small red excrescence in the inner canthus of the eye, growing from the caruncula lacrymalis and semilunar fold of the conjunctiva’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1586. Walter Bailey, Preserv. Eye-sight (1633), 16. Encanthis is an excrescence of the same flesh which is in the greater Cantho.
1657. Phys. Dict., Enchanthis.
1685. J. Cooke, Marrow of Chirurgery (ed. 4), IV. § 2. i. 193. Encanthe is an increase of the Glandule in the great corner of the Eye.
1708. in Kersey.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1840. R. Liston, Elem. Surg. (ed. 2), II. 312. Encanthis is a tumour situated in the corner of the eye.
1847. in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
