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Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: corner
Narrower terms: nasal canthus, temporal canthus
Borrowed from Latin canthus (“corner of the eye”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مَأْق
(maʔq)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Arabic:
مَأْقًى
(maʔqan)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Arabic:
لِحَاظ
(liḥāẓ)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Bulgarian:
кантус
(kantus)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Catalan:
cua de l'ull
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Chinese Mandarin:
眼角
(yǎnjiǎo)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Chinese Mandarin:
眥 /眦
(zì)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Choctaw:
nishkin chukbika
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Czech:
oční koutek
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Finnish:
silmäkulma
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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French:
canthus
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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French:
coin de la paupière
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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French:
coin de l'œil
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Galician:
rabiño do ollo
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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German:
Lidwinkel
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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German:
Augenwinkel
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Greek:
κανθός
(kanthós)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Ancient Greek:
κανθός
(kanthós)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Hawaiian:
luaʻuhane (only refers to medial canthus)
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Hungarian:
szemzug
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Italian:
coda dell'occhio
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Māori:
pī
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Māori:
pī o te karu
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Persian:
چشمگوشه
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Portuguese:
canto
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Romanian:
cantus
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
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Swedish:
ögonvrå
— corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet
