Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
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Example sentencesExamples
Humans are polymorphic for skin colour, body stature, sickle-cell anaemia, blood groups and the epicanthic eye-fold.
I have always liked drawing faces and can still remember my flush of pleasure when I first got the epicanthic fold right.
The majority of the human species had blended into various shades of brown, usually accompanied by dark hair and, more often than not, at least a trace of epicanthic fold to the eyes.
He was a tall, thin man with only the hint of an epicanthic fold.
Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds.
Definition of epicanthic in US English:
epicanthic
adjectiveˌepəˈkanTHik
Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
内眦赘皮的
Example sentencesExamples
Humans are polymorphic for skin colour, body stature, sickle-cell anaemia, blood groups and the epicanthic eye-fold.
I have always liked drawing faces and can still remember my flush of pleasure when I first got the epicanthic fold right.
Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds.
He was a tall, thin man with only the hint of an epicanthic fold.
The majority of the human species had blended into various shades of brown, usually accompanied by dark hair and, more often than not, at least a trace of epicanthic fold to the eyes.