What's the difference between exophthalmos and exophthalmus?

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.

Exophthalmus


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Exophthalmia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A child with severe head injury and basal skull fracture, who did not have any preceding symptoms or signs of ophthalmoplegia or exophthalmus, developed massive epistaxis as a leading symptom of the ruptured intracavernous aneurysm.
  • (2) Concerning the exophthalmus producing tissue factors till now only qualitative results could be offered.
  • (3) Three additional groups showed reductions of more than 60% of exophthalmuses and over 25% of encephaloceles.
  • (4) Exophthalmus or enophthalmus of more than 2 mm was not encountered.
  • (5) Hyaloronidase markedly reduced the thyreotropin induced exophthalmus.
  • (6) The diagnostic problems of acute, unilateral exophthalmus are discussed in connection with a case of spontaneous intraorbital haematoma by the rupture of a venous saccular aneurysm.
  • (7) A 47-year-old man was admitted to the neurosurgical department of Nagasaki University Hospital with complaints of high fever, deteriorated conciousness and nonpulsating exophthalmus on the left side.
  • (8) Enophthalmus of 1 mm or more was found in only 25% and exophthalmus of 1 mm or more, in 18%.
  • (9) The involved orbit exhibited exophthalmus and inability of the eye to move above the horizontal.
  • (10) Diplopia and unilateral exophthalmus of a female patient, aged 34, with Goodpasture's syndrome were the indication for echographic examination.
  • (11) A 60-year-old man was diagnosed as Hand-Schüller-Christian disease due to the triad of exophthalmus, decalcification of the bone, and diabetes insipidus.
  • (12) A 5 year-old girl was seen to a ophthalmologist complaining of exophthalmus of her left eye after trauma on her face for the past 2 months.
  • (13) Our results demonstrate that the thyreotropin induced exophthalmus is a useful model for testing the efficacy of drugs in animal experiments.
  • (14) In addition, this surgical approach may be utilized for levator-lengthening procedures in cases of thyroid exophthalmus or overcorrected ptosis simply by performing the reverse procedure of detachment and insertion of a spacer based on the same ratio.
  • (15) In 54 cases of unilateral, surgically verified, exophthalmus usefulness of echography A was compared with histopathological diagnosis.
  • (16) We report the occurrence of meningeal MM causing exophthalmus and fever in a patient with myelofibrosis secondary to polycythemia vera.
  • (17) A 29-year-old male patient with a microphthalmos on the right side since birth was seen in June 1987 in the University Eye Clinic because of a massive exophthalmus of the former microphthalmic eye.
  • (18) Additionally, polygenic and environmental effects might be of importance in the occurrence of convergent strabismus with exophthalmus.
  • (19) Computerized tomography of the orbita is today the most accurate method to determine the causes of exophthalmus.
  • (20) This exophthalmus can be suppressed by local application of guanethidine.

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