a. and sb. [SUB- 1 b.]

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  A.  adj. Situated below or under the orbit of the eye; infraorbital.

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1822–7.  Good, Study Med. (1829), IV. 315. The sub-orbital branch of the fifth pair [of nerves].

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1854.  Latham, Native Races Russ. Emp., 23. The skin brown or brunette, and the suborbital portion of the face flattened.

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1871.  Darwin, Desc. Man, II. xviii. 280. The so-called tear-sacks or suborbital pits.

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1883.  Encycl. Brit., XV. 348/2. The suborbital gland or ‘crumen’ of Antelopes and Deer.

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  B.  sb. A suborbital structure; a suborbital bone, cartilage, nerve, etc.

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1834.  McMurtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 192. The true Perches have the preoperculum dentated…. Sometimes the sub-orbital and the humeral are slightly dentated.

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1897.  Günther, in Mary Kingsley’s W. Africa, 709. The first suborbital is narrow, much narrower than the second and third, which nearly entirely cover the cheek.

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  So Suborbitar, -orbitary [mod.L. suborbitārius] adjs. and sbs.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 485. Preoperculi and *suborbitars dentated on their margin.

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a. 1843.  in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VII. 300/2. The Suborbitar bones … of Cuvier.

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1890.  Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Suborbitar fissure, infraorbital fissure. Suborbitar fossa, canine fossa.

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1733.  trans. Winslow’s Anat. (1756), II. 64. The *Sub-Orbitary Ramus … runs in the Canal of the inferior Portion of the Orbit.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 464. Suborbitaries dentated.

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