What is "glabella"

Glabellum \Gla*bel"lum\, n.; pl. Glabella. [NL. See Glabella.] (Zo["o]l.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

Glabella \Gla*bel"la\, n.; pl. Glabell[ae]. [NL., fr. L. glabellus hairless, fr. glaber bald.] (Anat.) The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

"space between the eyebrows," 1590s, Modern Latin, properly fem. of adj. glabellus "without hair, smooth," diminutive of glaber "smooth, bald," from PIE *gladh- "smooth" (see glad).

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The space between the eyebrows and the nose. 2 (context zoology English) The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites)

1. n. a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges [syn: mesophyron]

2. [also: glabellae (pl)]

The glabella, in humans, is the skin between the eyebrows and above the nose. It also refers to the underlying bone which is slightly depressed, and joins the two superciliary ridges. It is a cephalometric landmark that is just superior to the nasion.

Glabella is a genus of small tropical and warm-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Glabella may refer to:

• Glabella, the space between the eyebrows and above the nose in human anatomy
• Glabella (gastropod), a sea snail genus in the family Marginellidae