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Exophthalmos (also called exophthalmus, exophthalmia, proptosis, or exorbitism) is a bulging of the eye anteriorly out of the orbit.Exophthalmos can be either bilateral (as is often seen in Graves' disease) or unilateral (as is often seen in an orbital tumor).
Kim Goodman is a woman who holds the world record for the farthest eyeball protrusion (0.47 inches). [1] [2] [3] She lives in Chicago, Illinois.One day, she discovered her eyeball-popping talent when she was hit over the head.
The practice is promoted by advocates as causing rapid intoxication, but the amount of alcohol absorbed by the eye is low. [ 8 ] Some observers maintained that the phenomenon was not a real craze, describing the coverage as a media feeding frenzy and part of "a long history of trend pieces that come out of nowhere".
A gruesome injury that left forward Akil Mitchell with an eye dislodged from his socket plunged the stadium into a horrified silence.
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Yancey led his platoon in hand-to-hand combat through the sub-zero night. A grenade exploded near him, lodging a piece of shrapnel in the roof of his mouth. A bullet tore through his nose. A second bullet pierced his right cheek, knocking out his teeth, popping his eye out of the socket, and lodging in the back of his neck.
There are three types of eye removal: [4] Evisceration – removal of the iris, lens, and internal eye contents, but with the sclera and attached extraocular muscles left behind; Enucleation of the eye – removal of the eyeball, but with the eyelids and adjacent structures of the eye socket remaining. An intraocular tumor excision requires an ...