OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37146

commissure

/ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comisura
The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.
There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearl…
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