exophthalmia

English

Etymology

exo- +‎ ophthalmo- +‎ -ia

Noun

exophthalmia (countable and uncountable, plural exophthalmias)

  1. (medicine) The protrusion of an eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, as a consequence of disease.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exophthalmia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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