exophthalmicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

exophthalmic

1. Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
   • 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →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.