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- adjective anatomy Above the
orbit of aneye - adjective astronomy Describing a
period greater than anorbital period
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Examples
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In the first Irish to land in America, one could see that the proportions of the skull which give rise to this large upper lip, the low forehead, and the superorbital ridges are clearly Neanderthal characters.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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His own cranium has been preserved, in which I found these perceptive organs distinctly marked by their digital impressions on the superorbital plate over the eye.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856
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Not to get too esoteric, but I can visualize an almost superorbital / suborbital relationship in the Fisher King / Grail King duo -- wherein one transitions to the other in predictable cycles:
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Molars as in the _Muridae_ generally, but much worn in the specimen under examination; they are considerably less directed outward than usual, and the bony palate has therefore the appearance of being narrow; the superorbital ridges project much outward in form of a thin bony plate, and there is a considerable process at the base of the zygoma anteriorly and posteriorly to the anti-orbital foramen; zygomata broad, and compressed about the middle. "
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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