Definition of Suboptic

1. situated under the eyes [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suboptic

subobscurely
subobtuse
suboccipital
subocean
suboceanic
subocular
suboffice
subofficer
subofficers
suboffices
subohmic
subopercula
subopercular
suboperculars
suboperculum
suboptic (current term)
suboptimal
suboptimality
suboptimally
suboptimisation
suboptimisations
suboptimization
suboptimizations
suboptimize
suboptimized
suboptimizes
suboptimizing
suboptimum
suboption
suboptions

Literary usage of Suboptic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Situated under the eye; suborbital; suboptic— ... See cuts under opercular aud teleost. suboptic (sub-op'tik), a. Same as suborbital : — 2. ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1868)
"There is no suboptic foramen, but a supra- orbital one at the anterior part of the root of the orbit. There is a small posterior palatine foramen on each ..."

3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1891)
"... without ophthalmoscopic changes, is the result of a lesion of the internal and external geniculate bodies and of the corresponding suboptic region. ..."

4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1868)
"... it does not open into the cranial cavity, but communicates with its fellow on the opposite side : the author proposes to call it suboptic foramen. ..."

5. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the (1875)
"Skull more or less cylindrical ; with a lachrymal foramen whose mouth is close to the inner margin of the orbit ; with no suboptic foramen. ..."

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