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单词 procerus
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procerus

/prəʊˈsɛrəs/
Anatomy and Zoology
noun
A muscle, usually roughly triangular in shape, that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead. In early use more fully †procerus nasi.
  • An earlier name for this muscle was pyramidalis nasi..

Origin

Late 19th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From post-classical Latin procerus designating a muscle of the nose from classical Latin prōcērus long, stretched out from prō- + the stem of crēscere to grow + -rus, suffix forming adjectives.

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