glabellar line (frown line)

Introduction

vertical lines between the eyebrows (over the glabella)

Etiology

• these lines appear when a person frowns & activates the muscles that control movement between the eyebrows, the corrugator supercilii & the procerus

Pathology

• repeated contraction in connection with loss of elasticity with age may result in a frown line even when the facial muscles are at rest

Management

• Botox

More general terms

• anatomic suture

Additional terms

• glabella