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corrugator

British  
/ ˈkɒrʊˌɡeɪtə /

noun

  1. a muscle whose contraction causes wrinkling of the brow

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“Fluting happens at the top,” McDaniel said, indicating a series of whirring cogs on the corrugator that folded the paper into tiny creases — origami at industrial scale.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

With these movements, you can feel the action of the corrugator supercilli.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

There are several small facial muscles, one of which is the corrugator supercilii, which is the prime mover of the eyebrows.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

He lowered his brow, using his depressor glabellae, depressor supercilii, and corrugator.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Hence throughout this work I shall take a similar view of the action of the corrugator supercilii, orbicularis, pyramidalis nasi, and frontalis muscles.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles