Medical Definition of Palpebrae
1. Pleural of palpebra (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palpebrae
Literary usage of Palpebrae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The ocular muscles are the: Levator palpebrae superioris. Rectus medialis. ...
Tendon of Obliquus superior Orbital plate o/ frontal bone Levator palpebrae ..."
2. The Anatomy of the Human Body .. by John Bell, Charles Bell (1802)
"It lies under the orbicularis palpebrae ; is ... of their not knowing of the true
levator palpebrae, and their not being able to ..."
3. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"It lies under the orbicularis /«• whole palpebrae, is inserted into the whole
length of the tu^n^d- cartilage of the tarsus, and raises and opens the upper ..."
4. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"powerful astringent, restraining the purulent discharge and diminishing the
external swelling of the palpebrae, at the same time that its narcotic qualities ..."
5. French-English Medical Dictionary by Alfred Gordon (1921)
"(i) Insensibility of the tendon Achillis to compression in Tabes; (2) spasm of
the levator palpebrae superioris in Graves' disease. ..."
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