a. (sb.) Anat. and Zool. [ad. mod.L. suprā-orbitālis: see SUPRA- 1 b and ORBITAL.] Situated or occurring above the orbit of the eye. Also as sb. a supra-orbital artery, vein, bone or nerve.
1828. Quain, Elem. Anat., 648. The external, or supra-orbital branch [of the frontal nerve].
1846. Owen, in Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 283. The bones of the dermo-skeleton are:—The Supratemporals; The Supraorbitals; The Suborbitals; The Labials.
1868. Darwin, Anim. & Pl., I. iv. 117. The supraorbital plates or processes of the frontal bones are much broader than in the wild rabbit.
1876. Tomes, Dental Anat., 39. Pain … is often referred to the point of emergence of a nerve, as … in supra-orbital neuralgia.
Also Supra-orbitar, Supra-orbitary [mod.L. suprā-orbitārius], adjs.
1782. Monro, Anat. 287. The sight may be lost by an injury done to the supra-orbitar branch.
1844. Sir C. Bell, Anat. Expression, ii. (ed. 3), 49. The prominences over the orbits (the supra-orbitary ridges), which are peculiar to a more advanced age.
1856. Todd & Bowman, Phys. Anat., II. 7. The fissure which bounds the supra-orbitar convolution.
