supraorbital

[ soo-pruh-awr-bi-tl ]

/ ˌsu prəˈɔr bɪ tl /

situated above the eye socket.

Origin of supraorbital

1820–30; < New Latin suprāorbitālis equivalent to Latin suprā- supra- + orbit(a) orbit + -ālis -al¹

The patient complains of impairment of sight and of frontal or supraorbital pain.

Manual of Surgery |Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
Each bears a pore of the supraorbital line just below the midline.

A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas |Joan Echols
The supraorbital flanges of the frontoparietals do not appear until all other cranial bones are ossified, or nearly so.

Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca |William E. Duellman
There is also a pit indicating the presence of a supraorbital sensory pore.

A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas |Theodore H. Eaton

Juveniles of calidipes and sacki are alike in coloration but different in the extent of the supraorbital semicircle-series.

A New Subspecies of Lizard, Cnemidophorus sacki, from Michoacan, Mexico |William E. Duellman

supraorbital

/ (ˌsuːprəˈɔːbɪtəl, ˌsjuː-) /

anatomy situated above the orbit

supraorbital

[ sōō′prə-ôr′bĭ-tl ]

Located above the orbit of the eye.