palpebrate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the eyelids.
Example Sentences
- "Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure."
- "These data have encouraged us to apply some of the procedures used for correcting blepharoespasm(10,11,12) to palpebrate aesthetic surgery, by changing some of the existing techniques, moderately resecting the orbicular muscle on the external lateral portion of the palpebral commissure, attenuating its contraction, and thus diminishing skin wrinkles at this site ("crow's feet")."
- "The vesicles on his palpebrate conjunctivae and the Tzanck stain (or smear) revealing multinucleated giant cells are almost pathognomonic for a herpes simplex infection."
- "There were also observed double, triple and palpebrate movements that differed by brief returns to the inspiratory phase during the expiratory phase."
- "Without your eyelid, you could not palpebrate."
- "Respiratory viruses damage palpebrating epithelium of mucous membrane of the respiratory tract,"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
palpebrates (present, singular)
palpebrating (participle, present)
palpebrated (participle, past)
palpebrated (past)