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An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.

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

A morbid condition in which the eye stands wide open, giving a peculiar staring appearance.

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.

An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long- continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.

Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia. Exophthalmic golter. Same as Rasedow's disease.

Same as Exophthalmia.

Exophthalmia.

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face, a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a…

Same as Ophthalmia.

e presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.

s, a pink dress; pink ribbons. Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a…

Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.

Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

The Discophora, or Phanerocarpæ. Called also Steganophthalmia.

Xerophthalmia.