What is located medial to the eyes?

What is located medial to the eyes?

Medial : relates to the imaginary midline dividing the body into equal right and left halves (the nose is medial to the eyes).

What is inferior to the eyes?

Mouth is inferior to the eyes. The INFERno is below. Anterior (ventral) In front of; Toward or in front of the body.

Is the dorsal front?

On a human body, dorsal (i.e., posterior) refers to the back portion of the body, whereas ventral (i.e., anterior) refers to the front part of the body. The terms dorsal and ventral are also often used to describe the relative location of a body part.

What is the land between the eyebrows called?

The tract of land between the eyebrows is called the glabella. The word literally means “without hair, smooth, bald,” but in the social history of faces, this landmark has, by turns, boasted a healthy crop.

What is the space between the corners of the eye called?

Ancient Greek also used c anthus to refer to the corners of the eye, but related terms in Latin signify the “edge of a wheel” or the “rim.” “Brimming eyes” are filled with tears that overspill the canthus (“rim” i.e., “brim”). Make an “L” shape with your thumb and forefinger and the space between is called the purlicue.

What’s more to the human temple than the eyebrows?

But, there’s more to the human temple than that . . . like the space between the eyebrows, that stringy thing under the tongue, or “the anatomical snuffbox.” What other vastly under-recognized parts of the body are there? The tract of land between the eyebrows is called the glabella.

What is the difference between a unibrow and a glabella?

The unibrow has since fallen out of style and so the glabella fell into obscurity. From a Latinized Arabic word related to the “palm of the hand,” rasceta are the little crinkly wrinkles or creases at the wrists (with hands palm-up). In palmistry, rascette lines have significance.