Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to certain local bulgings of the eyeball.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye.

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  • noun medicine A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye.

Etymologies

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Latin, from Ancient Greek.

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