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Title: Depressors of the lower eyelid
Original Title: Abaisseurs de la paupiere inférieure
Volume and Page: Vol. 1 (1751), p. 8
Author: Pierre Tarin (ascribed) (biography)
Translator: Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University]
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Citation (MLA): Tarin, Pierre (ascribed). "Depressors of the lower eyelid." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.495>. Trans. of "Abaisseurs de la paupiere inférieure," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751.
Citation (Chicago): Tarin, Pierre (ascribed). "Depressors of the lower eyelid." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.495 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abaisseurs de la paupiere inférieure," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:8 (Paris, 1751).

Depressors of the lower eyelid [1] ; they serve to open the eye. [2]

1. The orbicularis oculi muscle.

2. In fact, it is the levator palpebrae superioris muscle that elevates the eyelid, opening the eye.