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@Fytcha, in response to your edit comment, I can't find 目ん玉 in any of my resources, full stop. I'm not familiar with the word in speech, so I can't say anything about it from my own subjective experience.
That said, if we assume that the mentama reading inherits the same pitch pattern as un-abbreviated me no tama, then this would presumably be both atamadaka and odaka, which is what Daijirin, NHK, and Shinmeikai all list for me no tama, such as:
As a native speaker of Japanese (Tōkyō dialect), I pronounce mentama with nakadaka [3]. And I think mentama with [1][4] are unnatural. Lugria[会話/貢献]08:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Eirikr: Thank you for checking. So it wasn't only my sources that didn't contain this word (despite being fairly common). Strange. It should, however, have crossed my mind to also check 目の玉; now I know!