n :  any of the small glands near the free margin of each eyelid regarded as modified sweat glands - called also Moll's gland 
 
Moll, Jacob Antonius (1832-1914), Dutch ophthalmologist. In about 1865 Moll wrote the first satisfactory description of the glands of the eyelids that now bear his name.
 
    
 
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