What's the difference between exophthalmic and exophthalmos?
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.
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.