exophthalmic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ælmɪk

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• exophthalmic goiter
• exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia