supra-auditoryadj.

1835 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1 346 There is a greater proportion of brain behind the meatus auditorius externus in the Chimpanzee than in the Orang,..whence it results that in the former the supra-auditory ridge is at some distance anterior to the additamentum suturæ lamdoidalis.

1848 W. Vrolik in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 198/1 There is, however, a long boundary continued from the outer part of the supra-orbital ridge..which is lost in the lambdoidal and supra-auditory ridges.

1885 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 176 23 The wall-cartilage is here of great depth; this may be called the supra-auditory tract of the chondrocranium.

1922 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 203 129 Important similarities..may be noted in..the peculiar supra-auditory foramen, and the same dental formula.

1974 D. L. Kramer Cranio-facial form in Two African Pongidae 108 This measurement was taken between the widest parts of each skull which, in the adults at least, corresponded with two points on the supra-auditory crests.

2008 Jrnl. Vertebrate Paleontol. 28 236/1 The braincase is low and wide, especially in the supra-auditory region, which is splayed out laterally.

1912 W. S. Sadler Physiol. Faith & Fear vii. 65 We do not hear such rapid air vibrations, and these we have termed supra-auditory vibrations—vibrations which can be detected by certain instruments of precision although they are not recognized by the ear.

1963 H. K. Schilling Sci. & Relig. iii. 47 If we say ‘by revelation’ we do not refer to some sort of extra-sensory supra-auditory perception by which God is heard to be speaking forth specific religious information or doctrines, but rather to revelatory experience.

1972 Contemp. Lit. 13 111 This is poetry aspiring to the condition of a supra-auditory music.

1994 New Eng. Rev. 16 140 Systems of electrical frequencies and their relationships, listening, in effect, at sub- and supraauditory levels.