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

The principal projection to be removed is the superciliary ridge corresponding to the brow at the base of the forehead.

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

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)

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

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

From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

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