canthus

IPA: kænθʌs

Examples of "canthus" in Sentences

It is from the canthus that is nearest to the nostrils that the membrane comes.
The Conservative Party canthus cut arts funding with very little political consequence.
Ordinarily tears are carried off by the thin lacrimal ducts placed at the inner canthus.
Man does not possess a functional nictitating membrane, but a remnant of it is to be found in the inner canthus.
This point is about once inch under and to the midline of the medial canthus or inner corner, right where the transverse facial vein divides.
For nearsightedness, close the eyes and pass the fingers, very gently, several times across them outward, from the canthus, or corner next the nose, towards the temple.
It is administered through bifrontotemporal electrodes, one on each side of the head, placed an inch above the midpoint of an imaginary line joining the outer canthus of the eye and the external auditory meatus.
What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance.
When I worked in the ER I had a plastic surgeon beef up my personal ratio count when he refused to come in for a 27 year old female who literally had the right side of her face bitten off from her lip to her orbital canthus by her own pit bull, ONE WEEK BEFORE HER WEDDING.