CORRUGATOR

Etymology

Noun

corrugator (plural corrugators)

A machine that corrugates material.

(anatomy) The corrugator supercilii, a narrow pyramidal muscle at the medial end of the eyebrow.

(anatomy) The corrugator cutis ani, a thin stratum of involuntary muscular fibre that radiates from the anal orifice.

Source: Wiktionary


Cor"ru*ga`tor (kr"r-g`tr), n. Etym: [NL.; cf. F. corrugateur.] (Anat.)

Definition: A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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