exophthalmic

English[edit]

exophthalmic

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.
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.