(From in, and an angle of the eye,) an encysted tumour on its inner angle. At the first a tubercle appears on the carunculalachrymalis, or on the cuticle adjacent; afterwards this tumour extends over the pupil of the eye. The tears in consequence trickle down the cheeks, the sight is impaired, the countenance deformed, and the eyes inflamed. When of a milder nature, it may be destroyed by gentle escharotics; the belly should be kept lax, and an issue in the arm, or a perpetual blister between the shoulders,-should continue to discharge.

When this tumour is malignant, it is attended with pain, is of a livid hue, and often cancerous. If manifestly cancerous, palliatives only are to be used; but otherwise, the whole tumour and its cyst should be dissected, raising it with the foreceps, to avoid cutting either the eye or the caruncle: if the latter is hurt, the tears will always run down the cheek; so that it is safer to leave a little of luxuriant flesh, and to destroy it afterwards with a caustic. See Ectropium; Heister's Surgery; and White's Surgery, p. 231.