Path. [mod.L., f. Gr. λίθος stone.] The formation of sand or stony concretions in the body, esp. in the Meibomian follicles of the eye. (Cf. LITHIASIS.)
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 255. Tendency to the separation or production of a morbid superabundance of calcareous earth in Osthexia and Lithia.
1842. Dunglison, Med. Lex., Lithia, the formation of stone or gravel in the human body. Also, an affection in which the eyelids are edged with small, hard, and stone-like concretions.
1889. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
