Definitions for Canthus

Canthus can·thus

Spelling: [kan-thuh s]
IPA: /ˈkæn θəs/

Canthus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in Canthus (achnstu).

Definitions for Canthus

noun

  1. the angle or corner on each side of the eye, formed by the junction of the upper and lower lids.

Origin of Canthus

1640-50; New Latin, Latin Greek kanthós; cf. cant2

Examples for Canthus

An incision is made outwards and slightly upwards from the canthus.

When the canthus passes right through the eye and divides it into two.

A delicately dotted black line runs on the canthus rostralis from the opening of the nose to the corner of the eye.

canthus: the chitinous process more or less completely dividing the eyes of some insects into an upper and lower half.

And there canthus was killed while he was trying to drive off sheep, by a stone which a herdsman threw.

Though usually only a process of the cheek, yet in the Scarabid the whole of that part forms the canthus.

And there canthus was killed, while he was trying to drive off sheep, by a stone which a herdsman threw.

The speculum is opened to its full width without undue strain on the canthus and is kept in position by tightening the screw.

In recently metamorphosed young the snout is more rounded than in adults; the canthus and loreal concavity are not evident.

When the canthus takes a little angle or sinus out of the eye.

Word Value for Canthus
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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