Word.ws English Dictionary

exophthalmia

exophthalmia noun: protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

Noun

exophthalmia (countable and uncountable, plural exophthalmias)

  1. Protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
    Synonyms:
    popeye

Synonyms of exophthalmia

Forms of exophthalmia

pluralexophthalmias

Origin of exophthalmia

From exo- + ophthalmo- + -ia.

Questions about exophthalmia

What does exophthalmia mean?
Exophthalmia means protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
What part of speech is exophthalmia?
Exophthalmia is a noun.
What is the plural of exophthalmia?
The plural of exophthalmia is exophthalmias.

Words near exophthalmia in the dictionary

  1. exophoric
  2. exophorically
  3. exophorics
  4. exophosphatase
  5. exophosphatases
  6. exophthalmia
  7. exophthalmias
  8. exophthalmic
  9. exophthalmic goiter
  10. exophthalmic goitre
  11. exophthalmometer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exophthalmia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “exophthalmia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/exophthalmia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.