Dictionary

glabella en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡləˈbɛlə/ (US)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
   • The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 6.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 156:
2. The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

Forms

Deriveds

glabellar

Relateds

glabellum

Synonyms

mesophryon (human anatomy)

Translations (25)

vi ấn đường (anatomy: space) · eo glabelo (anatomy: space) · cs lysina (anatomy: space) · cy talcen (anatomy: space) · es glabela (anatomy: space) · cs mračivka (anatomy: space) · cs rozbrví (anatomy: space) · el μεσόφρυος (anatomy: space) · ru надперено́сье (anatomy: space) · ru глабе́лла (anatomy: space) · ca glabel·la (anatomy: space) · ar بُلْجَة (anatomy: space) · fr glabelle (anatomy: space) · pt mesófrio (anatomy: space) · es entrecejo (anatomy: space) · fi otsakolmio (anatomy: space) · ar مَقْطَب (anatomy: space) · eo interbrovo (anatomy: space) · pt glabela (anatomy: space) · pt intercílio (anatomy: space) · de Glabella (anatomy: space) · trc rcutze̱ rihaan (anatomy: space) · ca entrecella (anatomy: space) · cmn 闕中 /阙中 (anatomy: space) · el σταυρός (anatomy: space)