Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exophthalmic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-oph-thalmic
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, or relating to exophthalmos.

adj

Having prominent eyeballs.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Phrases

exophthalmic goiter exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia

Rhymes With

ophthalmic xerophthalmic psorophthalmic hygrophthalmic monothalmic buphthalmic synophthalmic anophthalmic microphthalmic monophthalmic paraophthalmic

Questions

What does exophthalmic mean?: Of, or relating to exophthalmos.

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