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What is a canthus?

What is a canthus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
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A 25-year-old male presented himself to our outpatient department with increasing non-painful swelling below the medial canthus of the right eye since six months.
The eye movements were monitored by electrodes placed superorbitally and over the outer canthus of the left eye.
When he examined Halstead's eye, he found the eyestone near the outer canthus, and near it the irritating bit of wheat beard.
When the canthus takes a little angle or sinus out of the eye.
And there canthus was killed, while he was trying to drive off sheep, by a stone which a herdsman threw.
The speculum is opened to its full width without undue strain on the canthus and is kept in position by tightening the screw.

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