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palpebrate

palpebrate adjective: pertaining to the eyelids.

Adjective

palpebrate (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the eyelids.
    • Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure.1979, Kirk N. Gelatt, Robert L. Peiffer, R. M. Gwin, Manual of External Ophthalmic Surgery, page 98
    • These data have encouraged us to apply some of the procedures used for correcting blepharoespasm(10,11,12) to palpebrate aesthetic surgery, by changing some of the existing techniques, moderately resecting the orbicular muscle on the external lateral portion of the palpebral commissure, attenuating...2002, Antenor Bonatto Júnior, André Gonçalves de Freitas, José Marcos Mélega, “Myectomy of the Orbicularis Oculi Muscle: A New Procedure Associated to Bleroplasty”, in Brazilian Journal of Plastic...

Verb

palpebrate (third-person singular simple present palpebrates, present participle palpebrating, simple past and past participle palpebrated)

  1. (rare) To wink or blink.
    • Without your eyelid, you could not palpebrate.2013, Faith Hickman Brynie, 101 Questions about Muscles, 2nd Edition, page 58
    • Respiratory viruses damage palpebrating epithelium of mucous membrane of the respiratory tract,2018, TO Kryuchko, IA Golovanova, OY Tkachenko, MO Melnyk, KV Pocheniuk, “Prevalence of risk factors of allergic diseases among children aged 8-9 years in Poltava region (the results of the first...

Examples of palpebrate in a sentence

  • The vesicles on his palpebrate conjunctivae and the Tzanck stain (or smear) revealing multinucleated giant cells are almost pathognomonic for a herpes simplex infection.2011, Pamela Scott, Cases in Clinical Medicine, page 162:
  • There were also observed double, triple and palpebrate movements that differed by brief returns to the inspiratory phase during the expiratory phase.2015, GV Fedynchuk, VV Malyar, VA Malyar, “Haemodynamic changes in utero-placental-fetal complex on the background of the complex therapy...

Forms of palpebrate

third-person singular presentpalpebrates
present participlepalpebrating
past participlepalpebrated
pastpalpebrated

Origin of palpebrate

From New Latin palpebratus (“eyebrowed”), from Latin palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -atus.

Words formed from palpebrate

Questions about palpebrate

What does palpebrate mean?
Palpebrate means pertaining to the eyelids.
How do you use palpebrate in a sentence?
The vesicles on his palpebrate conjunctivae and the Tzanck stain (or smear) revealing multinucleated giant cells are almost pathognomonic for a herpes simplex infection.
What part of speech is palpebrate?
Palpebrate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near palpebrate in the dictionary

  1. palpebrae
  2. palpebral
  3. palpebral fissure
  4. palpebral fissures
  5. palpebrals
  6. palpebrate
  7. palpebration
  8. palpebritis
  9. palpebrofrontal
  10. palpebronasal
  11. palpebræ

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