Definition of Exophthalmus

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Medical Definition of Exophthalmus

1. Same as Exophthalmia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exophthalmus

exophiala
exophobic
exophora
exophoras
exophoria
exophoric
exophthalmia
exophthalmias
exophthalmic
exophthalmic goiter
exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia
exophthalmometer
exophthalmos
exophthalmos-producing substance
exophthalmoses
exophthalmus (current term)
exophthalmuses
exophthalmy
exophyllous
exophyte
exophytes
exophytic
exoplanar
exoplanet
exoplanetary
exoplanetology
exoplanets
exoplasm
exoplasms
exopod

Literary usage of Exophthalmus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"Higher degrees of exophthalmus attract our notice at once. ... exophthalmus is caused either by an increase in the volume of the orbital tissue or by a ..."

2. Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopy: For Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1889)
"exophthalmus. BASEDOW'S DISEASE. Apart from the diseases just mentioned, ... Periodical exophthalmus on bending the head has also been observed as the ..."

3. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... 'a plait talline; because it appears plaited or festooned, as it were. G OUTRE, (from guttur, ' throat,' [?] ) Broncho- cele. GOGGLE-EYED, exophthalmus. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1876)
"NON-PULSATING exophthalmus, WITH RECURRING THROMBOSIS OF ORBITAL VEINS. BY RJ McKAY, MD, WILMINGTON, DEL. AT the suggestion of Dr. LP Bush, ..."

5. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"They may each exist independently or in combination with one another or with exophthalmus and the Graefe sign. The figures of Wilbrand and Saenger 34 are of ..."

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