See Also: levator palpebrae superioris(medicine)
musculus levator palpebrae superioris(medicine)
superficial layer of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle(medicine)
deep layer of levator palpebrae superioris muscle(medicine)
lamina superficialis musculi levatoris palpebrae superioris(medicine)
lamina profunda musculi levatoris palpebrae superioris(medicine)
levator labii superioris(medicine)
musculus levator labii superioris(medicine)
levator labii superioris alaeque nasi(medicine)
musculus levator labii superioris alaeque nasi(medicine)

thirteen (iou) and levator palpebrae superioris (medicine)


thirteen (iou)



thirteen adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).
[Old English Treotiene = Old Saxon Triutein (Dutch dertien), Old High German drizehan (German dreizehn), Old Norse Trettan: see THREE, -TEEN.]
A. adjective.
One more than twelve (a cardinal numeral represented by 13 in Arabic numerals, xiii, XIII in roman). OE.
= THIRTEENTH adjective. OE-E19.
b. noun.
Thirteen persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, chances (in giving odds), minutes, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. OE.
old Thirteen: see OLD adjective.
S. Gray At thirteen I was embarrassed to wear a swimming costume.
One more than twelve as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (13 in Arabic numerals, xiii, XIII in roman). LME.
J. Woodforde The unlucky Number of thirteen sat down to dinner.
The thirteenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated thirteen, (usu. number thirteen, or with specification, as book thirteen, chapter thirteen, etc.); a size etc. denoted by thirteen, a garment etc. of such a size (also size thirteen). E16.
A set of thirteen; a thing having a set of thirteen as an essential or distinguishing feature. Formerly also spec. (Anglo-Irish), a silver shilling, from its being worth thirteen pence of Irish copper currency. E18.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 513 (read five hundred and thirteen, US also five hundred thirteen) etc. In dates used for one thousand three hundred, as 1340 (read thirteen forty), thirteen-eighties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having thirteen s', as thirteen-tonner etc. Special combs., as thirteen-year cicada, thirteen-year locust a periodical cicada of the race in the southern US whose nymphs emerge in a 13-year cycle (cf. SEVENTEEN-year cicada).
? That the number thirteen is unlucky is a widespread superstition.
thirteener noun (a) Anglo-Irish (now rare) a silver shilling (see THIRTEEN noun 4); (b) (Bridge etc.) the last unplayed card in a suit, after the Other twelve have been played in tricks: M18.

levator palpebrae superioris (medicine)


levator palpebrae superioris
<anatomy, muscle> Origin, orbital surface of the lesser wing of the sphenoid, above and anterior to the optic canal; insertion, skin of eyelid, tarsal plate, and orbital walls, by medial and lateral expansions of the aponeurosis of insertion; action, raises the upper eyelid; nerve supply, oculomotor.

Synonym: musculus levator palpebrae superioris, elevator muscle of upper eyelid, musculus orbitopalpebralis, palpebralis.