EPICANTHUS (epicanthi)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: epicanthi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does epicanthus mean? 

• EPICANTHUS (noun)
  The noun EPICANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome

  Familiarity information: EPICANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPICANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

epicanthic fold; epicanthus

Hypernyms ("epicanthus" is a kind of...):

fold; plica (a folded part (as in skin or muscle))

Holonyms ("epicanthus" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

Derivation:

epicanthic (relating to the epicanthus)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with blepharophimosis/ptosis/epicanthus inversus syndrome.

(FOXL2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)