An eyelid is a thin fold of skin that covers and protects an eye. The levator palpebrae superioris muscle retracts the eyelid, exposing the cornea to the outside, giving vision. This can be either ...

Larsen, MDFact checked by Nick Blackmer “Monolids” is a common term for epicanthal folds, a type of eyelid seen in people who don't have a double eyelid. Monolids typically occur in some ...

The configuration, not actually the shape of the eyeball, results from a fold of skin of the upper eyelid, the epicanthic fold, which tends to cover the inner corner of the eye. Dr. Frank Poirier ...

If, on the other hand, you have monolids, or single eyelids, your epicanthal fold — which is the skin on top of your eyelid — extends to the inside corner of your eye. Eye shape and size are ...

So what’s the flap about? The flap is actually about a fold, the epicanthic fold, which covers the inner corner of the eye and is usually more prominent in people of Asian descent. Asians and ...

"To the girls who were not born with double-eyelids, double-eyelid surgery is a little magic granting their wishes to be prettier," North Korean defector Mina Yoon writes in her most recent column ...