HOW TO PRONOUNCE
eyelid
/ˈaɪˌlɪd/
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What does eyelid mean?
noun
- A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
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IPA pronunciation
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As she settled herself into it and buttoned it under her chin, she gave him an old signal with her eyelid.
As he turned aside his face a minute, I saw a tear slide from under the sealed eyelid, and trickle down the manly cheek.
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Dr. J. Crichton Browne has also often noticed in melancholic patients who keep their eyebrows persistently oblique, “a peculiar acute arching of the upper eyelid.”
Anteriorly it is protected by the eyelids, and in birds by a third eyelid that corresponds to the membrana nictitans of quadrupeds.
Skin-grafting was tried in this case but with no result, and the woman afterward lost an eye by exposure, from retraction of the eyelid.