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supraorbital ridge: synonyms: brow ridge, superciliary arches ???

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a bony ridge located above the eye sockets of all primates. In Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) the eyebrows are located on their lower margin.

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The cast of his features was similar, though more pronounced—heavier supraorbital ridges, larger nose.

Jean M. Auel. The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)

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You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)