superciliary ridge

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. browridge.

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Etymology

Origin of superciliary ridge

First recorded in 1725–35

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superciliary ridge

Even in so trifling a character as the greater prominence of the superciliary ridge, the males of certain monkeys differ from the females,384 and agree in this respect with mankind.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 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

The superciliary ridge at the external angle of the brow extends really as much as three-quarters of an inch from the brain.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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

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

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles