n. the muscle of the scalp. The frontal portion, at the forehead, is responsible for raising the eyebrows and wrinkling the forehead; the occipital portion, at the base of the skull, draws the scalp backwards.
n. 1. a helmet-shaped part, especially the galea aponeurotica, a flat sheet of fibrous tissue (see aponeurosis) that caps the skull and links the two parts of the *epicranius muscle. 2. a type of head bandage.... galea
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