glabella

[gluh-bel-uh]

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noun

Anatomy.

plural

glabellae

the flat area of bone between the eyebrows, used as a craniometric point.

glabella

/ ɡ��əˈ��ɛ��ə /

noun

anatomy a smooth elevation of the frontal bone just above the bridge of the nose: a reference point in physical anthropology or craniometry

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Other Word Forms

glabellar adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glabella¹

First recorded in 1820–25; from New Latin, either feminine singular or neuter plural of Latin glabellus “smooth, hairless,” equivalent to glaber “without hair, smooth” + -lus, -la, -lum diminutive adjective and noun suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of glabella¹

C19: New Latin, from Latin glabellus smooth, from glaber bald, smooth

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A streak of thinner hair parts upward closer to the glabella.

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And when I did, the sharp edge of the pachyderm's trunk sliced right into my glabella.

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Drawing in the forehead in two lines from the frontal eminences to the glabella, where there is a strong outward drawing as if by a magnet.

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The superciliary prominences are well, but not excessively, developed, and are separated by a median depression in the region of the glabella.

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I murmur: "My glabella ..." But the staff doesn't know that the glabella is the name of the space between your eyebrows.

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GLA glabellum

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