WordNet
n. a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket [syn: supraorbital torus, superciliary ridge, superciliary arch]
Wikipedia
The supraorbital ridge or brow ridge, known as superciliary arches in medicine, refers to a bony ridge located above the eye sockets of all primates. In Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) the eyebrows are located on their lower margin.
Usage examples of "supraorbital ridge".
Pieces of truck had smashed her left humerus and cracked her left supraorbital ridge and four ribs, while small rocket fragments had struck her in the left arm and leg.
Or I should say, he was perhaps descended from the ape but he did not carry the killing genes any longer, any more than he carried the genes for a heavy supraorbital ridge of hairy skin or thick bones or a skull with only 650 cubic centimeters capacity.
One individual was tall and had heavy bones and a thick supraorbital ridge and heavy jaws.
On the malar bone as well as the supraorbital ridge were a series of narrow grooves, and on the greater wing of the sphenoid—.
The face was broad and a prominent supraorbital ridge shaded eyes of some light color.
He had been much taller than the average hybrid, and his eyes hadn't possessed the prominent supraorbital ridge arches, either.
It was at once maddeningly familiar and utterly unknown, with a high forehead, full lips, huge gray eyes with the faintest hint of scar tissue at the supraorbital ridge.
It had no forehead at all, merely a thick supraorbital ridge of bone.