EYEBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyeball mean? 

• EYEBALL (noun)
  The noun EYEBALL has 1 sense:

1. the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

  Familiarity information: EYEBALL used as a noun is very rare.

• EYEBALL (verb)
  The verb EYEBALL has 1 sense:

1. look at

  Familiarity information: EYEBALL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYEBALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

eyeball; orb

Hypernyms ("eyeball" is a kind of...):

capsule (a structure that encloses a body part)

Holonyms ("eyeball" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

Derivation:

eyeball (look at)

• EYEBALL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look at

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

eye; eyeball

Hypernyms (to "eyeball" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot eyeball Sue

Derivation:

eyeball (the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by an increase in pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the aqueous humor outflow.

(Glaucoma, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor.

(Glaucoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A gland in the margins of the eyelids that opens into the follicles of the eyelashes and produces secretions that lubricate the eyeball.

(Gland of Moll, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by involuntary movements of the eyeballs.

(Nystagmus, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A portion of the retina at which the axons of the ganglion cells exit the eyeball to form the optic nerve.

(Optic Disc, NCI Thesaurus)

Swelling around the optic disk, the area where the optic nerve (the nerve that carries messages from the eye to the brain) enters the eyeball.

(Papilledema, NCI Dictionary)

Neoplasms of the bony orbit and contents except the eyeball.

(Orbit Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

If the cancer starts inside the eyeball it's called intraocular cancer.

(Eye Cancer, NIH)

A protrusion of the eyeball from the socket.

(Exophthalmos, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder in which a person is born without part or all of the iris (colored tissue at the front of the eyeball).

(Aniridia, NCI Dictionary)