orbicular

ADJECTIVE
  1. having the shape of a sphere or ball
    a spherical object
    little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
    nearly orbicular in shape
  2. circular or nearly circular
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How To Use orbicular In A Sentence

  • Sterile scissors are then used to make a horizontal incision through the skin and orbicularis muscle at the lateral canthal angle 1 cm toward the lateral orbital rim (left image).
  • nearly orbicular in shape
  • Several familiar forms of plants were discovered; also a new Eucalyptus, with a glaucous suborbicular subcordate leaf, and the bark of the rusty gum: a stunted or middle-sized tree, which grew in great abundance on the ranges. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
  • ABC and DEF to be two Mathematical Rays, _trajected_ from a very remote point of a luminous body through an _Homogeneous_ transparent _medium_ LLL, and DA, EB, FC, to be small portions of the orbicular impulses which must therefore cut the Rays at right angles; these Rays meeting with the plain surface NO of a _medium_ that yields an easier _transitus_ to the propagation of light, and falling _obliquely_ on it, they will in the Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • Mr. JOHN MERCANTI (Chief Engraver, United States Mint): When they do a portrait, I want them to know exactly what the whole muscle structure in the face is, orbicularis oculi, orbicularis oris. Sculpting The Digital Dollar
  • The _first glume_ is 1/3 to 1/2 of the third glume, suborbicular, abruptly acuminate or rarely mucronate and 5-nerved A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • -- As in many cases the entropium seems to depend partly on a too great laxity of the skin of the lid, combined occasionally with spasm of the orbicularis, the simplest and most natural plan of operation is (_a_) to remove (Fig.VII. _a_) an elliptical portion of skin, extending transversely along the whole length of the affected lid, including the fibres of the orbicularis lying below it, and then to unite the edges with several points of fine suture. (_b_) An improvement on this in obstinate cases is proposed by A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • The _second glume_ is a little longer than the first but shorter than the third, broadly ovate or suborbicular, hyaline, 5-nerved. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The household ruin was thus full and orbicular.
  • Fore wings acute; orbicular mark black, punctiform; reniform narrow, brown, bordered, excavated on the outer side; exterior border slightly convex. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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