Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a protrusion of the eyeball, caused by disease. Also
exophthalmy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
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- noun medicine The
protrusion of theeyeball so that theeyelids will not cover it, in consequence ofdisease .
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Examples
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The face was a trifle froglike, for his pale blue eyes had a tendency to pop out—exophthalmia, the Greeks called it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The face was a trifle froglike, for his pale blue eyes had a tendency to pop out—exophthalmia, the Greeks called it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Lesions of the same sciatic nerve, of the restiform body, etc., provoked various troubles in the guinea-pig which its progeny inherited sometimes in a quite different form: exophthalmia, loss of toes, etc.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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In these animals modified by heredity, the two eyes generally protruded, although in the parents usually only one showed exophthalmia, the lesion having been made in most cases only on one of the corpora restiformia.
Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868
yarb commented on the word exophthalmia
The medical condition of having abnormally protruding eyeballs.
October 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word exophthalmia
Also known as popeye. Can be cured by eating spinach?
June 12, 2019