circumorbital

While mosquitoes hardly take effect, sand flies have often blinded me for hours by biting the circumorbital parts.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

These are, the nitrous and pungent nature of the soil-what the old Greek calls “acrid matter exuding from the earth,” — and the sudden transition from extreme dryness to excessive damp checking the invisible perspiration of the circumorbital parts, and flying to an organ which is already weakened by the fierce glare of the sun, and the fine dust raised by the Khamsin or the Chaliho.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

While mosquitoes hardly take effect, sand flies have often blinded me for hours by biting the circumorbital parts.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855