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Palpebral

Palpebral \Pal"pe*bral\, a. [L. palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F. palp['e]bral.] Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

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palpebral

a. Pertaining to eyelids

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Palpebral (bone)

The palpebral bone is a small dermal bone found in the region of the eye socket in a variety of animals, including crocodilians and ornithischian dinosaurs. In ornithischians, it can form a prong that projects from the front upper corner of the orbit. It is large in heterodontosaurids, basal ornithopods such as Thescelosaurus (as Bugenasaura) and Dryosaurus, and basal ceratopsians such as Archaeoceratops; in these animals, the prong is elongate and would have stuck out and over the eye like a bony eyebrow. As paleoartist Gregory S. Paul has noted, elongate palpebrals would have given their owners fierce-looking " eagle eyes". In such cases, the expanded palpebral may have functioned to shade the eye.

Usage examples of "palpebral".

Constant tremulous agitation of the inferior palpebral and great zygomatic muscles is pathognomic of the earlier stages of general paralysis.