Definition of "orbitalis" [orbitalis]

• A muscle that controls protrusion of the eyeball (noun)

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• "His tooth also had started to ache again -- the right eye-tooth which was connected to the eye-nerve orbitalis."
• "It is the orbitalis, he said to himself; it comes from the broken-off root of the eye-tooth."
• "In K.nya that same year, K. Leuschner, a German graduate student working at the Coffee Research Station in Upper K.ambu, observed that a methanolic neemleaf extract controlled the coffee bug (Antestiopsis orbitalis bechuana) by growth-regulating effects."