Exophthalmic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Exophthalmic is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
Meaning
Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
More Meanings
- Having prominent eyeballs.
Example Sentences
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.
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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