glabella

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Computer-generated human face illustrating the glabella
Diagram of a trilobite, showing the glabella in colour and numbered 4.

Etymology

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).

Pronunciation

Noun

glabella (plural glabellas or glabellae)

  1. (anatomy) The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
  2. (zoology) The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlaˈbɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: gla‧bèl‧la

Noun

glabella f (plural glabelle)

  1. (anatomy) glabella
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