If you don’t know what “proptosis” means, do yourself a favor and never, ever Google image search for it. Basically, it’s the book learnin’ crowd’s way of saying “wouldn’t you know it, your eyeball just fell out of your head,” and along with peeing on things and experiencing labored breathing for their entire lives, it’s one of the Pekingese’s favorite things in the whole wide world.

Proptosis, or “Total Recall syndrome” as we’d like people to start calling it, can come as a result of the Pekingese’s abnormal skull shape. It’s one of about a dozen different problems that can arise from brachycephalic ocular syndrome, a disorder caused by having too much eyeball in not enough head.

Ocular proptosis isn’t strictly a Pekingese problem, and can also affect pugs, Boston terriers, and other short-snouted, bulgy-eyed breeds. It can occur due to blunt trauma, infection, or just a bad case of having a weird face. Luckily, if you move fast and have a good vet, the affected eye can frequently be saved.

And if that’s not enough body horror for one day, did you know that you can get a tapeworm in your brain? What a time to be alive.