(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.
Exophthalmos
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Exophthalmus
Example Sentences:
(1) In one patient, the pretibial myxedema developed symmetrically half a year after the appearance of endocrine exophthalmos.
(2) This case is an unusual example of fibrous dysplasia of the skull with neuro-ophthalmological symptoms but without ptosis, exophthalmos, or visual loss.
(3) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(4) Exophthalmos was noted in 61 percent (N = 14) of the patients.
(5) Transantral decompression of the orbit for malignant exophthalmos can be recommended on the experiences of Walsh and Ogura, and Gorman et al.
(6) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
(7) Facial deformity secondary to Crouzon disease may include exophthalmos and midfacial hypoplasia.
(8) Exophthalmos was mild and not more than 3 mm in any patient.
(9) A girl aged 13 years developed an acute unilateral Exophthalmos on the right side with disturbances of eye-motion, choked disc and nearly complete amaurosis within 3 days after onset.
(10) A 52-year-old man presented with left exophthalmos.
(11) 27 of 110 patients with combined type of thyrotoxicosis developed malignant exophthalmos.
(12) In two patients, the exophthalmos followed surgery, while in the third it did not appear until after radiation treatment.
(13) X-ray to the thyroid also can induce other histologic abnormalities, including a high incidence of adenomas and hypothyroidism, and is associated with an increased incidence of autoimmune thyroid disease and possibly the development of exophthalmos and Graves' disease.
(14) The patient was a 3-year-old boy in whom swelling of the left upper lid and left exophthalmos appeared after blunt trauma in the region of the left eye.
(15) As for the older symptoms, visual disturbance was seen in 4 cases, unilateral pulsating exophthalmos in 1 case and papilledema in 3 cases.
(16) The twins had gross exophthalmos and hydrocephalus with papilledema, so early calvarial decompression surgery was required.
(17) The patient was 47 year-old man who was admitted to our department on September 3, 1984 complaining of left conjunctival injection, exophthalmos and bruit at the left temporal region.
(18) Shortly after intraperitoneal administration of this fraction, typical narcotic-like effects were observed, including catalepsy, analgesia, Straub tail, shallow respiratory movements and exophthalmos.
(19) Clinical, radiological and anatomical description of sellar chordoma giving, on a sixty seven years old man, an unusually large tumoral exophthalmos, a massive orbito-sphenoidal osteolysis and a chiasmatic syndroma.
(20) A newborn boy was noted by his mother to have a prominent left eye at birth, but an eye examination was delayed until age 7 months, at which time his ophthalmologist diagnosed exophthalmos.