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‖ glabella, glabellum|gləˈbɛlə, gləˈbɛləm| [mod.Lat.; specific application of L. glabella (? sc. pars), glabellum, fem. and neut. of glabellus adj., dim. of glaber smooth, glabrous. Cf. F. glabelle.] 1. Anat. The small space in the human forehead between the eyebrows and immediately above a line from one to the other.
[1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo's Artes Paintinge i. v. 29 The space betweene the eyebrowes, the Italians call glabella.] 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Glabella. 1861Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 545 These tubercles are prone to appear in an irregularly triangular group, with the apex at the glabella and the base near the margin of the scalp. 1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 95 The nasal depression is very slight, the glabella prominent, but the supraciliary ridges little developed. 2. ‘The smooth median portion of the cephalic shield of a Trilobite’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885).
1849Murchison Siluria ix. (1867) 203 The glabella has only two pairs of furrows. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 259 On the occipital or lateral margin of the limb a suture commences, and passing between the eye and the glabellum, meets that of the opposite side. |