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- noun anatomy A
muscle that controlsprotrusion of theeyeball
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Examples
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It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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His tooth also had started to ache again -- the right eye-tooth which was connected to the eye-nerve orbitalis.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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In K.nya that same year, K. Leuschner, a German graduate student working at the Coffee Research Station in Upper K.ambu, observed that a methanolic neemleaf extract controlled the coffee bug (Antestiopsis orbitalis bechuana) by growth-regulating effects.
4 What's in a Neem 1992
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Other investigations dealt with the control of parts of the forebrain (area orbitalis), in which Hess together with K. Akert has achieved some insight into the cortical representation of sight, and oral and pharyngeal regions.
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His tooth also had started to ache again — the right eye-tooth which was connected to the eye-nerve orbitalis.
Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940
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It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth.
Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940
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The inferior orbital fissure (fissura orbitalis inferior; sphenomaxillary fissure), horizontal in direction, opens into the lateral and back part of the orbit.
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Inferior temporal sulcus Ascending ramus Horizontal ramus Pars triangularis Pars orbitalis
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The Duchenne smile, in the presence of genuine emotion, flexes not only the zygomatic but also the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis muscle which encircles the eye and gives the distinctive
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The Duchenne smile, in the presence of genuine emotion, flexes not only the zygomatic but also the orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis muscle which encircles the eye and gives the distinctive
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