Medical Definition of Canthal
1. Relating to a canthus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canthal
Literary usage of Canthal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Bulletin by Philadelphia Museums, Pa Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1899)
"Twelve rows of scales at widest part of front ; three canthal scales, and six
rows of loral scales. Occipital not larger than surrounding scales, ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"The second puncture is placed between the upper part of the lachrymal sac and
the cupola of the sac on the median side just above the inner canthal ligament ..."
3. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"... behind the truncated upper edge three scales of the same size as the other
upper head scales in a line between the anterior nasals and the first canthal ..."
4. A treatise on the diseases of the eye and its appendages by Richard Middlemore (1835)
"In slight cases of entropium dependent on an unnatural incurvation of the canthal
extremities of the tarsal cartilage, I am in the habit of performing an ..."
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