Protuberant eyes, or exophthalmos, can be a sign of a thyroid disorder, for example. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
Sub-conjunctival ecchymosis, and some degree of exophthalmos, are almost always present. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
There have been people who prided themselves on their ability to produce partial exophthalmos. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Among the older writers we find Ficker and the Ephemerides giving instances of exophthalmos from vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Among the older writers we find Ficker 10.1 and the Ephemerides giving instances of exophthalmos from vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
You are exhibiting visual symptoms of exophthalmos (bug eyes), which is a diagnostic factor for hyperthyroidism. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Examples of exophthalmos, or protrusion of the eye from the orbit from bizarre causes, are of particular interest. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In some cases in which exophthalmos has been seemingly spontaneous, extreme laxity of the lids may serve as an explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Holmes also reports a case of enormous congenital exophthalmos, in which the right eye protruded from the orbit and was no longer covered by the cornea. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
There is exophthalmos and fixation of the globe, with redness, swelling and tenderness of the eyelids, and congestion and ecchymosis of the conjunctiva. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
In all varieties of intra-orbital tumour exophthalmos is a prominent feature (Figs. 238, 239), and when the protrusion of the eyeball is marked the lids become swollen, œdematous, and dusky. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
There are risks on the one hand of a most unseemly exophthalmos with divergent squint, and on the other of a retraction of the semilunar fold, so that the sub-conjunctival operation is always preferable. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
Excessive thyroid secretion, as in thyrotoxicosis from functioning adenomata, and excessive thyroid feeding, cause all the phenomena of Graves 'disease except the exophthalmos and the emotional facies (Figs. 15 and 23). From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
I was finally diagnosed but the cure was worse, I became Hypo and gained a loooot of weight, I physically changed, I was unrecognizable, like swollen, but the worst thing was that I developed exophthalmos, protrusion of the eyeball from the orbit, I basically looked like a fat version of kermit the frog, I was so depressed I just wanted to die. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference
It was inmates who worked here at the mining enterprise since the camp was right next to the mine The reason for the emergency situation -- an ignorance of elementary engineering -- could have been clarified without having to fly out to the site Its consequences could have been eliminated as well by instruction from a competent engineer What was needed were experienced pyrotechnic specialists and demolition experts And they sent us a demolition-qualified inmate tall, exhausted by hunger and the Artic, with a very characteristic, slightly elongated artistic face on which the unnatural protrusion of gray eyes in sockets sunken from emaciation revealed someone ill with exophthalmos goiter In an accent clearly that of an English speaker, he also only identified himself as a citizen of the United States of America. From Wordnik.com. [FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website] Reference
exophthalmos, 232. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
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