. The expression of the emotions in man and animals . #1 —^SSB^^^B / ,yoe///y^u^t^ Chap. YII. OBLIQUE EYEBROWS. 181 peculiar furrows formed on the forehead. These muscles,when thus in conjoint yet opposed action, may be called,for the sake of brevity, the grief-muscles. When aperson elevates his eyebrows by the contraction of thewhole frontal muscle, transverse wrinkles extend acrossthe whole breadth of the forehead; but in the presentcase the middle fasciae alone are contracted; conse-quently, transverse furrows are formed across the middlepart alone of the forehead. The skin over the exterio
. The expression of the emotions in man and animals . #1 —^SSB^^^B / ,yoe///y^u^t^ Chap. YII. OBLIQUE EYEBROWS. 181 peculiar furrows formed on the forehead. These muscles,when thus in conjoint yet opposed action, may be called,for the sake of brevity, the grief-muscles. When aperson elevates his eyebrows by the contraction of thewhole frontal muscle, transverse wrinkles extend acrossthe whole breadth of the forehead; but in the presentcase the middle fasciae alone are contracted; conse-quently, transverse furrows are formed across the middlepart alone of the forehead. The skin over the exteriorparts of both eyebrows is at the same time drawn down-wards and smoothed, by the contraction of the outer por-tions of the orbicular muscles. The eyebrows are likewisebrought together through the simultaneous contractionof the corrugators;^ and this latter action generates ^ In the foregoing remarks on the manner in which the eyebrowsare made obli(iue, I have followed what seems to be the universalopinion of all the anatomists, whose works I have
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