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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The eye & surrounding area
beadily
beetling
canthus
chiasm
chiasma
compound eye
eye socket
eyeball
glassy
limbus
macula
macula lutea
macular
monobrow
optic nerve
staring
suborbital
superciliary
supraoptic
supraorbital

Examples from literature

'Attract, sir?' said Bella, again with her eyebrows raised, and her eyelids drooping. 
Closing his eyelids did not shut it out. 
His eyelids grew heavier and heavier. 
I started up, bewildered and alarmed, passing my hands dreamily over my swollen eyelids. 
The eyes lost their usual lively appearance, and the eyelids were often closed. 

eyelid | American Dictionary

eyelid
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɑɪˌlɪd/
either of the two pieces of skin that you can close over each eye

Examples of eyelid

eyelid
Ordinary image recognition techniques are applied to the video frames to find the eye, the position of eyelids and the centre of the pupil.
The upper eyelid was categorised as either normal or exhibiting ptosis (droop), and the presence or absence of bags under the eyes was also recorded.
Ipsilateral forehead and facial sweating with eyelid oedema may occur.
Then your chest and diaphragm are suddenly opened and your mood is many times better; before long your muscles are softened and your eyelids close.
Enucleation caused more column shrinkage than eyelid suture at age 5 weeks.
Monocular deprivation and reverse suture represent the correlations that would be expected to occur due to light transmission through the closed eyelids.
Hers is the head upon which all 'the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary.
The lack of an obvious ocular-dominance pattern in kittens is also probably because the translucent eyelids of young animals transmit visual information.
The upper eyelid, the nictitating membrane, and the sclera were excised.
A silver hook electrode placed under the eyelid served as reference.
A small opening on the nasal end of the eyelid allowed lachrymal drainage.
Only rabbit 683 was tested at day 48 and it transmitted from eyelid and two secondary lesions on the legs.
They are never experienced without the cooccurrence of a feeling of localized eyelid pressure.
Other abnormalities of the head include eye anomalies such as nasolacrimal duct obstruction, ptosis of the eyelids, congenital or juvenile glaucoma and refractive errors.
First, the closed eyelids filter out high spatial frequencies that are normally processed by cor tical neurons representing central vision.
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