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Glabella   Listen
noun
Glabella  n.  (pl. glabellae)  (Anat.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Glabella" Quotes from Famous Books



... Australoid or Papuan nose he possessed—in other words, broad, with the lower part forming a flattened, depressed, somewhat enlarged hook with heavy nostrils. In profile his face was markedly convex, not concave as in Mongolian faces. Then the glabella or central boss in the supra-orbital region, the nose, the chin, were prominent, the latter broad and well-rounded. The cheek-bones with him and other types of his tribe were prominent forwards, but not unduly broad laterally, so that the face ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor



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



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