palpebræ

See also: palpebrae

English

Etymology

From Latin palpebrae, plural of palpebra.

Noun

palpebræ (archaic)

1. plural of palpebra
   • 1812, G. J. M. de Lys, transl., Elements of Physiology, 5th edition, London: Printed for Thomas Underwood, […], translation of original by A. Richerand, page 275:

     On reaching the internal angle of the palpebræ, the tears accumulate in the lacus lachrymalis, a small space formed between the edges of the palpebræ kept separated from each other by the caruncula lachrymalis.

   • 1843, John Walker, “Chapter X. Diseases of the Eyelids”, in The Oculist’s Vade-Mecum: A Complete Practical System of Ophthalmic Surgery. […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Manchester: Simms and Dinham, “Section I. Blepharitis Idiopathica, or Phlegmonous Inflammation of the Palpebræ, pages 368–369:

     Inflammation of the eye-lids is very commonly observed to attend some of the more violent forms of ophthalmia, and more particularly the purulent variety; but the disease of which we are now to treat is an idiopathic affection, and confined, or nearly so, to the palpebræ. / Symptoms.—It is most frequently witnessed in children, commonly attacking the palpebræ of only one eye, and the upper eye-lid is more considerably affected than the lower one.

   • 1887, E. D. Cope, “Part I.—General Evolution”, “II. On the Origin of Genera”, in The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution, London, Macmillan and Co., and New York, page 114:

     The snake-like forms of the families of the Lacertilia Leptoglossa greatly predominate in the Southern Hemisphere; also those with undeveloped palpebræ.