What's the difference between exophthalmia and exophthalmic?
Exophthalmia
Definition:
(n.) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an extremely rare cause for tumoral exophthalmia in children and the localization in this region is also very unusual.
(2) The exophthalmia was resistant to corticosteroids, thyroxin in large doses, reserpine, and the patient was treated by mischotomy (division of the pituitary stalk with interposition of polyethylene strips).
(3) The progeny of these hens had anomalies manifested by bilaternal medial deviation of the toes, exophthalmia, and shortened femurs.
(4) The authors report a case of malignant exophthalmia occuring after treatment of Grave's disease with I 131.
(5) Tellurium dioxide (TeO2) induces hydrocephalus, edema, exophthalmia, ocular hemorrhage, umbilical hernia, undescended testes and small kidneys in day 20 Wistar rat fetuses when administered s.c. to pregnant dams from gestational day 15 to 19.
(6) The malformations included cranioschisis with exencephaly, maxillary hypoplasia, exophthalmia and various digital anomalies.
(7) We also studied various types of exophthalmos: 31 cases of endocrine exophthalmos, whether the thyroidal plasma values were normal or not, and 2 cases of exophthalmia with expansive orbital hyperplasia in which there had been no previous thyroidal disturbance.
(8) Traquinol in small doses revealed slight stimulating central effect, causing uneasiness, increased reaction to touch and pain, slight exophthalmia, These manifestations were accepted as a sign of the sympathycomimetic action of the preparation.
(9) This report is concerning a case of bilateral Grave's exophthalmia which underlines that it may appear without hyperthyroidism, and progress in an independent way.
(10) Among malignant tumor of the orbit in children, rhabdomyosarcoma remains the most frequent; it should be suspected on any unilateral exophthalmia.
(11) This exophthalmia was due to plasma cell infiltration of the periorbital fat, and not to primary involvement of the orbit.
(12) They were protected from the disease, whereas the control (naive) fish, infected with only the virulent parasite, had the usual clinical signs (e.g., anemia, exophthalmia).
(13) The number and percentage of fetuses malformed per litter (open eye, exophthalmia, exencephaly, short, constricted, or no tail, major vessel malformations, fused or branched ribs, and fused or misaligned thoracic vertebral centra) were elevated at 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15% DEHP.
(14) They developed an osteotomy that yields promising results: eight patients amounting to 15 orbits have been operated and exophthalmia was reduced in 12 (mean 3 mm).
(15) Further investigations were conducted because of mild exophthalmia, including an electro-encephalogram and craniofacial computer tomography.
(16) Hydatid cyst should be systematically evoked in any case of tumoral exophthalmia developed in a young patient, particularly if he comes from an endemic country.
(17) A survey is given of 74 orbital tumours that were operated during the past 10 years and that gave indications to operate (exophthalmia, tenderness, diplopia, loss of vision).
(18) The most common clinical sign was exophthalmia, followed by chronic epiphora, enophthalmia, and strabismus.
(19) Exophthalmia was present in 22.7% toxic nodular goiter in 26.5%; the remaining patients had autonomous adenoma.
(20) Our purpose is to present a case of olfactory meningioma with extensive invasion of the orbit and the ethmoid sinuses revealed by an exophthalmia.
Exophthalmic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is postulated that this thread forms because of the excessively exophthalmic conformation of the breed, which prevents the normal access of effete mucus and entrapped debris to the lower conjunctival fornix.
(2) Myogenic forms of the ptosis are: Senile ptosis, chronic progressive ocular muscle dystrophy, acute exophthalmic myositis and affections of the levator together with general systemic myopathies.
(3) Thomas Dunhill 1876-1957, Australian born surgeon (Melbourne 1907-1914 and London 1920-1941) performed partial thyroidectomy for exophthalmic goitre using Th.
(4) The purified retro-orbital tissue antigen preparation demonstrates a 50- to 150-fold higher specific activity over crude homogenates in its ability to act as an antigen in the MIF assay of exophthalmic patients.
(5) A bruit could be heard over the left eye which was exophthalmic.
(6) Assuming that intraorbital volume is a space defined by the orbital walls, and that intraorbital contents represent a space occupied by soft tissues, changes between volume and contents will result in movement of the globe in usually a forward (exophthalmic) or backward (enophthalmic) direction.
(7) Three exophthalmic patients had atrial fibrillation.
(8) Gammaglobulin from the sera of patients with malignant exophthalmos increases the binding of both pituitary factors, whereas binding is not similarly increased by gammaglobulin from the sera of individuals who are not exophthalmic.
(9) The increased binding caused by the gammaglobulin from exophthalmic patients is the same whether the sera are positive or negative for the long-acting thyroid stimulator.
(10) An exophthalmic right eye was surgically removed from a nine year old Holstein cow.
(11) The possible adverse effects of lid splitting for the mass removal of distichiae in exophthalmic dogs is discussed.
(12) Inoculation of these MLO into mouse eyelids produced chronic uveitis and exophthalmic orbital inflammatory disease.
(13) A photoelectronic device was used to record micromovements of the eyes in 110 patients with disorders of the functions of the oculomotor apparatus (myasthenia, myopathia, malignant exophthalm, basal paralysis, nuclear paralysis, cerebral tumours).
(14) Although the extent of proptosis in exophthalmic Graves' disease has been measured directly and shown to correlate with serum content of a bioassayable exophthalmus-producing factor (EPS;1), a comparable relationship in an experimental model has not been reported.
(15) The manifestations consisted of dark brown pigmentation of the skin and the mucous membrane, gingival hyperplasia, exophthalmic edematous eye, dentition at birth, abnormal calcification of the skull as demonstrated by X-ray, rocker bottom heel and high incidence of light for date (low birth weight) babies.
(16) Ocular muscle diseases fall into two distinct groups: acute or subacute exophthalmic myositis and chronic oligosymptomatic myositis.
(17) The left eye of the affected fish was severely exophthalmic because of a large intraocular tumour mass.
(18) Since thyroglobulin purified from normal human thyroid glands and the purified retro-orbital tissue preparation are nearly equivalent as antigens in the MIF assay of exophthalmic patients, we conclude that thyroglobulin or an antigenic component of the thyroglobulin molecule is one of the antigens to which patients with Graves' disease and exophthalmos demonstrate delayed hypersensitivity.
(19) The possible pathological relationship between the exophthalmic syndrome (ES) and hyperthyroidism (HT) is also supported by our data.
(20) A case of exophthalmic myositis was identified by a secondary herpes zoster exacerbation.