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exophthalmic

adjective

Of, or relating to exophthalmos.

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Meanings

adjective

Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
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.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 147
Having prominent eyeballs.
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.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with exophthalmic

ophthalmic anophthalmic antixerophthalmic buphthalmic hygrophthalmic interophthalmic intraophthalmic microphthalmic monophthalmic monothalmic nonophthalmic paraophthalmic preophthalmic psorophthalmic synophthalmic xerophthalmic

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APA

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MLA

“exophthalmic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exophthalmic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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