Dictionary entry

Meibomian

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mei‐bo″mi‐an (?), a.(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius.

Meibomian glands, the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.