oculi

• “Bowring again: The cavern below the pattern of oculi is revealed to be the negative form of a building.”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “Squeeze your zigomatic major, squint your orbicularis oculi, and if you really want to get things flowing ... expose your teeth.”

  The Huffington Post: Toan Lam: Going the Extra Smile: Project Connects World Through Grins (VIDEO)

• “Mr. Morellet's redesign of seven antique bay windows and oculi around the Lefuel staircase in the Museé du Louvre's Richelieu wing, in particular, made subtle use of his geometrical skills to create a destabilizing elegance.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Morellet Occupies a New Space

• “What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor, which seems to be a metabolic specialization to secrete oxygen and nutrients into the vitreous to supply by diffusion the retina.”

  More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb

• “Mr. JOHN MERCANTI (Chief Engraver, United States Mint): When they do a portrait, I want them to know exactly what the whole muscle structure in the face is, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris.”

  NPR: Sculpting The Digital Dollar

• “These trading boats were three-masted, oceangoing junks, known as “big-eyed chickens” for their red sails and the huge pairs of eyes painted on their bows, put there by the sailors who believed that these magic oculi could spot pirates lying in wait up ahead.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Last Empress

• “Ictus oculi is the Latin expression for the time taken to blink.”

  Two Allegories

• “And if you were to tell us that the marked boreholes remind you of Bowring's oculi, the surface presence of untraceable “subterranean subconscious” folding back into the earth, that's because Bowring is a genius and she intended it.”

  Burying the Villa Savoye

• “Example, levator veli palatini, raises (levator) the palate (palatini), or obicularis (orbits or encircles) oculi (the eyes).”

  Muscles Part 2

• “Actually, I think the big bad wolf was referring to the orbicularis oculi that surrounds the eye and helps it to open and close.”

  Muscles Part 2

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