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Extra-ocular: remote from or beyond the eyes.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the eye: ocular exercises; ocular muscles.
  2. adjective Resembling the eye in form or function: ocular spots; an ocular organ.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the sense of sight: an ocular aberration.

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  • But all the musical, ocular, and facial beauties are absent from writing. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • You thought the illusion only ocular--it extended to the sense of touch Weissmann's eyes gleamed speculatively. —  The Tyranny of the Dark
  • Conclusion. When any one has long and attentively looked at a bright object, as at the setting sun, on closing his eyes, or removing them, an image, which resembles in form the object he was attending to, continues some time to be visible; this appearance in the eye we shall call the ocular spectrum of that object These ocular spectra are of four kinds: 1st, Such as are owing to a less sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or spectra from defect of sensibility. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • At all events Lovers always talk in a cryptic tongue There is but one universal language: the ocular--not Volapuk nor Esperanto is as intelligible or as efficacious as this No woman can be coerced into love,--though she may be coerced into marriage. —  Hints for Lovers
  • In the eye there is probably a normal equilibrium between blood pressure, tissue activity, and intra-ocular tension. —  Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
 

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  1. Late Latin oculāris, from Latin oculus, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French oculaire = Spanish Portuguese ocular = Italian oculare, from Late Latin ocularis, also Latin ocularius, of or belonging to the eyes, from oculus (= Greek dial. ὅκκαλλος, ὅκταλλος), the eye, diminutive of *ocus = Greek ὅκος, ὅκκος, the eye (dual ὅσσ, σ1ε, the eyes), akin to Anglo-Saxon eáge, etc., eye: see eye.
 

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