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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
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The estimation of the facial angle, the determination of which, according to Professor Owen, is also difficult in the great apes, owing to the very prominent supra-orbital ridges, in the present case is rendered still more difficult from the absence both of the auditory opening and of the nasal spine.
Essays 2007
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But if the proper horizontal position of the skull be taken from the remaining portions of the orbital plates, and the ascending line made to touch the surface of the frontal bone behind the prominent supra-orbital ridges, the facial angle is not found to exceed 56 degrees. 59 Unfortunately, no portions of the facial bones, whose conformation is so decisive as regards the form and expression of the head, have been preserved.
Essays 2007
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If skulls are present, compare cranial features- the male skull will have a more defined nuchal crest, mastoid process, supra-orbital ridge/glabella, & mental eminence.
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004
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The female skull will be more pediomorphic, & the supra-orbital margin will be sharp & curved.
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004
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The day after seeing the skull for the first time, he wrote enthusiastically to Louis of the human-like contour of the supra-orbital brow ridge region … and refined forehead….
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The day after seeing the skull for the first time, he wrote enthusiastically to Louis of the human-like contour of the supra-orbital brow ridge region … and refined forehead….
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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There was anæsthesia over the area supplied by the outer branch of the supra-orbital nerve, extending from the supra-orbital notch backwards into the parietal region, but none over the area supplied by the second division of the fifth nerve.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Anæsthesia over distribution of temporal branch of temporo-malar nerve, part of supra-orbital area, auriculo-temporal nerve, and small occipital cervical nerve.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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I saw no case of entire loss of function in any one division, symptoms being mostly confined to certain branches, as the supra-orbital, the temporo-malar, the dental branches of the second division, the auriculo-temporal nerve, and the lingual, dental, and mental branches of the third division.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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