exophthalmic

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exophthalmic

  1. Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 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.
  2. Having prominent eyeballs.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528:
      What an incredible, head-reeling collocation of cultures: Islamic texts sprawling on the Great Wall, a twelve-legged god looking down in exophthalmic frowning benevolence.

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