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Definition of Lagophthalmos
1. Noun. Abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely.
Medical Definition of Lagophthalmos
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lagophthalmos
Literary usage of Lagophthalmos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"lagophthalmos from organic contraction or adhesions of the eyelids. ... This form
of lagophthalmos can only be remedied by one or other of the operations ..."
2. Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye by Andrew Maitland Ramsay (1898)
"In both of these examples the lagophthalmos will be complicated by ectropion.
In other cases, such as severe exophthalmic goitre (Plate XL 1 1 1. ..."
3. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"Sometimes the eyeball protrudes so much in high myopia that the presence of
lagophthalmos is suggested, but this can always be excluded if there is no ..."
4. Text-book of Diseases of the Eye: For Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Howard Forde Hansell, William Merrick Sweet (1903)
"lagophthalmos is an apparent protrusion of the ball due to inability to close
the lids. Its causes are paralysis of the seventh nerve, congenital or ..."
5. Diseases of the eye and disorders of speech in childhood by Oskar Everbusch, Max Nadoleczny (1914)
"... the epithelial lining of the conjunctiva has undergone restoration and the
cauterized places again look as before. 6. KERATITIS FOLLOWING lagophthalmos ..."
6. The Science and Art of Surgery by Edward Carroll Franklin (1873)
"lagophthalmos (hare-eye) signifies an inability to close the palpebrae. Sometimes it
arises from the contraction of cicatrices, and requires the same ..."
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