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Glabella

noun
(pl. glabellae)
1.
A smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges.  Synonym: mesophyron.



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"Glabella" Quotes from Famous Books



... ridges for the attachment of muscles are less pronounced,... the forehead is ... more perpendicular, to such a degree that in a group of skulls those of the two sexes have been mistaken for different types; the superciliary ridges and the glabella are less developed, often not at all; the crown is higher and more horizontal; the brain weight and cranial capacity are less; the mastoid apophyses, the inion, the styloid apophyses, and the condyles of the occipital ...
— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas



Words linked to "Glabella" :   glabellar, craniometric point, forehead, frontal bone, Woodsia glabella, os frontale



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