What's in a chalazion?

SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

TIME OPH

VOLUME 30 * NUMBER 2 * SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER

BENJAMIN

1985

MILDER, EDITOR

What’s in a Chalazion? When speaking or writing of the lowly chalazion, I regret to admit that I used to be hazy on The appropriate word which precisely expresses The stuff that is found in that lesion’s recesses.

Of course the word “glop” is in Webster a fixture, Defined very nicely as “messy mass or mixture.“’ Nonetheless, it is clear that “glorp” is superior For the stuff that is in a chalazion’s interior.

“Lipogranulomatous” some call this material, But that’s a big mouthful and much too ethereal. “Chalazion content” is so euphemistic; I preferred something earthy and naturalistic.

So if you as well have been hunting frantically For a term that will hit this target semantically, Put aside whatever’s the last word you used, And see if you don’t find “glorp” le motjwte!

I groped for a term more or Monosyllabic and yet quite From LIPOGRANULOMA Rearranged them to GLORP, Although never heard in “Glorp” closely resembles Which Oxford informs us With such an authority,

less scientific, specific: I picked out a few bits, and - Eureka! It fits!

MARK J. GREENWALD, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

English before, the archaic word “glore” is “loose fatty tissue.“’ who could take issue?

M.D.

1. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971 2. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: G & C Merriam, 1981

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