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Meibomian cyst

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A cyst of the little glands called Meibomian glands that are located in the eyelids and make a lubricant they discharge through their tiny openings in the edges of the lids.

The lubricant is a fatty substance called sebum characteristic of sebaceous glands.</P> The Meibomian glands are named for a 17th-century German anatomist Heinrich Meibom (who must have had good eyes to see these minute structures).

They are also known as the palpebral glands, tarsal glands, or tarsoconjunctival glands.

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