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canthus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkænθəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“corner of the eye”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

Meanings

1. Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
   • the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
   • A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye. 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye. 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

Forms

Deriveds

medial canthus · canthitis · canth- · lateral canthus · canthal · cantho- · telecanthus

Relateds

endocanthion · exocanthion · epicanthus

Translations (27)

sv ögonvrå (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · ar مَأْق (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · bg кантус (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · mi pī (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · fa چشمگوشه (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · el κανθός (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · de Augenwinkel (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · fr coin de la paupière (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · pt canto (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · mi pī o te karu (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · fr canthus (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · de Lidwinkel (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · hu szemzug (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · haw luaʻuhane (only refers to medial canthus) (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · it coda dell'occhio (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · ar لِحَاظ (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · ca cua de l'ull (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · cho nishkin chukbika (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · fi silmäkulma (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · cmn 眼角 (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · grc κανθός (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · cmn 眥 /眦 (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · ar مَأْقًى (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · cs oční koutek (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · ro cantus (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · gl rabiño do ollo (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet) · fr coin de l'œil (corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet)