glabella

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Of these points, the glabella was obvious enough; but when

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  1. noun The smooth area between the eyebrows just above the nose.

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  • Woodsia glabella (Willoughhy Mountain, Vt. —  The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • If a line be drawn from the point at which the brow curves in towards the root of the nose, and which is called the 'glabella' ('a') (Figure 22), to the occipital protuberance ('b'), and the distance to the highest point of the arch of the skull be measured perpendicularly from this line, it will be found to be 4.75 inches. —  Lectures and Essays
  • Of these points, the glabella was obvious enough; but when I had distinguished another, defined by the occipital protuberance and superior semicircular line, and had placed the outline of the Neanderthal skull against that of the Engis skull, in such a position that the glabella and occipital protuberance of both were intersected by the same straight line, the difference was so vast and the flattening of the Neanderthal skull so prodigious (compare Figs. —  Lectures and Essays
  • If a line be drawn from the point at which the brow curves in towards the root of the nose, and which is called the 'glabella' ('a') (Fig. —  On Some Fossil Remains of Man
  • If a line joining the glabella and the occipital protuberance ( 'a', 'b', —  Lectures and Essays
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  1. New Latin, from feminine of Latin glabellus, hairless, diminutive of glaber.

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  1. New Latin, feminine: see glabellum.
 

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