different between exophthalmic vs exophthalmia

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exophthalmic

Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 147]:
  She was given hormone injections and pills and she grew slender. Judging from the exophthalmic bulge, it must've been thyroxine that they put her on.
Having prominent eyeballs.

exo- +? ophthalmo- +? -ia

exophthalmia (countable and uncountable, plural exophthalmias)

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

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