supraciliaryadj.n.

1821 G. C. Monteath tr. C. H. Weller Man. Dis. Human Eye I. 74 Professor Beer..cures it [sc. weakness of sight] by bold incisions in the region of the supraciliary foramen.

1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature ii. 76 In the Man,..the supraciliary ridges or brow-prominences usually project but little.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 450 A yellowish suffusion about the head, and especially along the supraciliary stripe.

1936 Jrnl. Galway Archaeol. & Hist. Soc. 17 55 This is shown by the size of the bones,..and the development of the glabella and supraciliary ridges in the skull.

1838 Lancet 7 Apr. 33/2 There was, in fact, complete paralysis of the frontal muscles, the supraciliary, the orbicularis palpebrarum, [etc.].

1854 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1852–3 6 175 The arrangement of the supraciliaries is more like that in Sc[eloporus] occidentalis than in Sc. undulatus.

1880 Archaeologia 45 398 Viewed in the vertical aspect, the two supraciliaries and the zygomatic arches all come into view.

1920 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 50 16 Another brother was more like the people in the list above, with strong supraciliaries and rather less closely curly hair.

1988 B. Branch Field Guide Snakes & other Reptiles Southern Afr. (1992) 120 The posterior supraciliary is fused with the postocular.

2004 R. D. Bartlett Crested Geckos & Relatives 10/1 Crested geckos derive both their common name and their scientific name of ciliatus from the crest of long, pointed scales (the supraciliaries) above each eye.