Rare genetic condition gives man Eye of Sauron look

Like this, except less evil lord-like. (credit: New Line Cinema)

Move over, Dark Lord of Mordor. There's a new blazing peeper in town.

Doctors in Texas came face to face with a dark, spine-tingling eye that looked rimmed by flames-or, as they calmly described it in a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine: an eye with "circumferential spoke-like iris transillumination defects."

They met this penetrating gaze during the routine eye exam of a 44-year-old man. The man had come into their Texas ophthalmology clinic simply to establish care as a new patient. He had recently moved into the area.

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