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  • noun anatomy A muscle that controls protrusion of the eyeball

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Examples

  • It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Walter Hess - Biography 1964

  • 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

  • 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

  • The inferior orbital fissure (fissura orbitalis inferior; sphenomaxillary fissure), horizontal in direction, opens into the lateral and back part of the orbit.

    II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull 1918

  • Inferior temporal sulcus Ascending ramus Horizontal ramus Pars triangularis Pars orbitalis

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows jsprovost 2010

  • 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

    COSMOS magazine - The science of everything 2008

  • 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

    COSMOS magazine - The science of everything 2008

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