Canthus

What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. ❋ Jan (2008)

When I worked in the ER I had a plastic surgeon beef up my personal ratio count when he refused to come in for a 27 year old female who literally had the right side of her face bitten off from her lip to her orbital canthus by her own pit bull, ONE WEEK BEFORE HER WEDDING. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2008)

The Conservative Party canthus cut arts funding with very little political consequence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This point is about once inch under and to the midline of the medial canthus or inner corner, right where the transverse facial vein divides. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)

It is from the canthus that is nearest to the nostrils that the membrane comes. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It is administered through bifrontotemporal electrodes, one on each side of the head, placed an inch above the midpoint of an imaginary line joining the outer canthus of the eye and the external auditory meatus. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Man does not possess a functional nictitating membrane, but a remnant of it is to be found in the inner canthus. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

Ordinarily tears are carried off by the thin lacrimal ducts placed at the inner canthus. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

For nearsightedness, close the eyes and pass the fingers, very gently, several times across them outward, from the canthus, or corner next the nose, towards the temple. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The bullet entered over the left malar bone 2-1/2 inches from the outer canthus, while the aperture of exit was 2-1/4 inches above the inferior angle of the right scapula, 3/4 of an inch anterior to its axillary margin. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

The lateral palpebral commissure (commissura palpebrarum lateralis; external canthus) is more acute than the medial, and the eyelids here lie in close contact with the bulb of the eye: but the medial palpebral commissure (commissura palpebrarum medialis; internal canthus) is prolonged for a short distance toward the nose, and the two eyelids are separated by a triangular space, the lacus lacrimalis (Fig. 892). ❋ Unknown (1918)

Front of left eye with eyelids separated to show medial canthus. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The figures of dogs usually agree in having a black mark about the eyes that frequently is produced as a downward curved tongue from the posterior canthus. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The oblique, almond-shaped eyes, with black iris and the orbits far apart, have a vertical fold of skin over the inner canthus, concealing a part of the iris, a peculiarity distinguishing the eastern races of Asia from all other families of man. ❋ Unknown (1909)

There was also one large blister near the inner canthus of the eye and some large blisters about the neck and throat which the mother did not show. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Buchanan 10.16 recites the case of a private in the army who was shot at a distance of three feet away, the ball entering the inner canthus of the right eye and lodging under the skin of the opposite side. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Riker 6.122 reports the case of an infant of three weeks who possessed a supernumerary nose on the right nasal bone near the inner canthus of the eye. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Rider 10.34 speaks of the lodgment of a fragment of a copper percussion cap in the left eye, back of the inner ciliary margin of the iris, for thirty-five years; and Bartholinus 10.35 mentions a thorn in the canthus for thirty years. ❋ Unknown (1896)