Complete Definition of "circumoral"

English

Adjective
circumoral

  1. around or encircling the mouth.

#:{2|You know this smile: the strenuous contraction of circumoral fascia w/ incomplete zygomatic involvement, the smile that doesn't quite reach the smiler�s eyes and that signifies nothing more than a calculated attempt to advance the smiler�s own interests by pretending to like the smilee.} From: :w:A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again|A Supposedly Fun Thing I�ll Never Do Again (1997) by David Foster Wallace, page 289.

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