Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Same as
exophthalmia .
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- noun pathology An
abnormal protrusion of theeyeball from itssocket .
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- noun protrusion of the eyeball from the socket
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Protuberant eyes, or exophthalmos, can be a sign of a thyroid disorder, for example.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Protuberant eyes, or exophthalmos, can be a sign of a thyroid disorder, for example.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Protuberant eyes, or exophthalmos, can be a sign of a thyroid disorder, for example.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Excessive thyroid secretion, as in thyrotoxicosis from functioning adenomata, and excessive thyroid feeding, cause all the phenomena of Graves 'disease except the exophthalmos and the emotional facies (Figs. 15 and 23).
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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It is "a fact that forcible expiratory efforts in violent coughing or vomiting, and especially in sneezing, sometimes give rise to ruptures of the little (external) vessels" of the eye. 17 With respect to the internal vessels, Dr. Gunning has lately recorded a case of exophthalmos in consequence of whooping-cough, which in his opinion depended on the rupture of the deeper vessels; and another analogous case has been recorded.
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Holmes also reports a case of enormous congenital exophthalmos, in which the right eye protruded from the orbit and was no longer covered by the cornea.
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There have been people who prided themselves on their ability to produce partial exophthalmos.
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For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye.
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In some cases in which exophthalmos has been seemingly spontaneous, extreme laxity of the lids may serve as an explanation.
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Examples of exophthalmos, or protrusion of the eye from the orbit from bizarre causes, are of particular interest.
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