Definition of Eyeball

1. Noun. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.

Exact synonyms: Orb
Group relationships: Eye, Oculus, Optic
Generic synonyms: Capsule

2. Verb. Look at. "Sam cannot eyeball Sue "
Exact synonyms: Eye
Generic synonyms: Look
Derivative terms: Eye, Eye, Eye

Definition of Eyeball

1. n. The ball or globe of the eye.

Definition of Eyeball

1. Noun. the ball of the eye ¹

2. Verb. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye; to look or glance at. ¹

3. Verb. To scrutinize ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyeball

1. to eye [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: eye

Medical Definition of Eyeball

1. The eye proper without the appendages. Synonym: bulbus oculi, bulb of eye, globe of eye. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeball

eye shadow
eye sight
eye socket
eye sockets
eye speculum
eye splice
eye splices
eye teeth
eye test
eye tests
eye tooth
eye up
eye witness
eye witnesses
eyeable
eyeball (current term)
eyeball-heart reflex
eyeball compression reflex
eyeball to eyeball
eyeballed
eyeballing
eyebar
eyebars
eyebath
eyebaths
eyebeam
eyebeams
eyeblack
eyeblacks

Literary usage of Eyeball

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"The secretory nerves are contained in the lacrimal and subcutaneous malar branches of the fifth nerve, and in the cervical sympathetic. The eyeball. ..."

2. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1903)
"The anterior or corneal segment, forming only about one-sixth of the entire eyeball, possesses a shorter radius than the hinder or sclerotic segment. ..."

3. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1908)
"THE eyeball. THE eyeball is not perfectly spherical ; it may be said to be composed of the segments of two spheres. The anterior or corneal segment, ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"In dealing with monocular vision we rarely had occasion to refer specially to the movements of the eyeball; but in binocular vision these play an important ..."

5. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1867)
"The eyeball is composed of several investing tunics, and of fluid and solid ... The sclerotic and cornea form the most external tunic of the eyeball ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1856)
"Scirrhus of the eyeball? Under the name of scirrhus of the eyeball, some authors describe a disorganized state of it, characterized by its being misshapen ..."

7. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"The globular eyeball is capable of extensive and free movement on the ... The movements of the eyeball, however, are limited by certain conditions, ..."

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