Enophthalmos

A condition in which the eye falls back into the socket and inhibits proper eyelid function.


A condition in which the eyes are very deep in their sockets.


Recession of the eyeball into the orbit.


Condition in which the eyeball is displaced back in the eye socket, because of injury or developmental defect.


A condition in which the eye is abnormally sunken into the socket. It may follow fractures of the floor of the orbit that allow the eye to sink downward and backward.


Abnormal retraction of the eye into its socket for example, when the sympathetic nerve in the neck is paralyzed.


A state characterized by the retraction of the eye into the socket, leading to impaired functionality of the eyelid.


Enophthalmos refers to the inward sinking of the eyeball. The primary causes of enophthalmos are a fractured eye socket or the shrinking of the eye caused by the formation of scar tissue following an injury.


The eyeball’s withdrawal into the eye socket, resulting in a sunken appearance.


 


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