superciliary ridge

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. browridge.

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Etymology

Origin of superciliary ridge

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

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superciliary ridge

On the right superciliary ridge is observable an oblique furrow or depression, indicative of an injury received during life.

From On Some Fossil Remains of Man by Huxley, Thomas Henry

A cicatrix covering a slight depression was easily found, above the left superciliary ridge of the frontal bone, and over the superior orbitar foramen.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

There is no crest in the latter, and the white whiskers terminate abruptly on a level with the eyebrow, and the superciliary ridge of hair is wanting.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Macacus cynomolgus, superciliary ridge of; beard and whiskers of; becoming white with age.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

For instance, how are you to exhibit the superciliary ridge which gives so distinctive a character to the very bird Waterton selects — the hawk — if you cut it away?

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu