canthus

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canthus and canthus (herpetology)

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænθəs/

Noun

canthus (plural canthi or canthuses)

1. (anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

   • 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

     I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

   • 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

Derived terms

• canthal
• canthitis
• lateral canthus
• medial canthus
• telecanthus

Related terms

- canthoplasty

• endocanthion
• epicanthus
• exocanthion (ectocanthion)

Translations

corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet

Arabic: مَأْق m (maʔq), مَأْقًى m (maʔqan), لِحَاظ (liḥāẓ) Catalan: cua de l'ull f Chinese: Mandarin: 眼角 (zh) (yǎnjiǎo), 眥 / 眦 (zh) (zì) Czech: oční koutek m Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: silmäkulma (fi) French: canthus (fr) m, coin de la paupière m, coin de l'œil m Galician: rabiño do ollo m German: Lidwinkel m, Augenwinkel (de) m Greek: κανθός (el) m (kanthós) Ancient: κανθός m (kanthós) Hungarian: szemzug (hu) Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Maori: pī, pī o te karu Persian: چشم‌گوشه Portuguese: canto (pt) m Romanian: cantus n Swedish: ögonvrå (sv) c

Anagrams

• chaunts, staunch