What does "exophthalmic" mean?

Of, or relating to exophthalmos.

What is a synonym for "exophthalmic"?

Common synonyms include: bellied, bug eyed, goggle, goggled, popeyed, swollen.

Exophthalmic

adj

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Adjective

1
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."
2
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."

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bellied bug eyed goggle goggled popeyed swollen

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"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."

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