artificial eye

American

noun

a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.

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artificial eye

I don’t know what to do with it for the artificial eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Earlier versions of artificial eye devices required external power sources and cables that extended outside the eye.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2025

These are the moments that give His Dark Materials its ballast, that keep it from floating off into a fantasia of artificial eye candy.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2019

An artificial eye is not like an artificial leg, or a false tooth.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2012

"It was an artificial eye of yours that he hit."

From Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat by Ross Kay

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