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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2025-01-21 07:24 am

palpebral

palpebral (PAL-puh-bruhl, pal-PEE-bruhl, pal-PEB-ruhl) - adj., of, relating to, or located on or near the eyelid.


an eyelid, which is palbebral
Thanks, WikiMedia!

Medical jargon of the hard-to-pronounce variety -- it'd be a good word to include in a tongue-twister. Taken in the 1750s from Late Latin palpebrālis, of or on the eyelids, adjectival form of Latin palpebra, eyelid.

---L.
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[personal profile] med_cat 2025-02-01 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
A good word to know, thanks