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the fastest curtain in the body, dropping forty times a minute without a single bow.
means The thin fold of skin that covers and protects the eye, opening and closing to keep it clean and moist.
from A plain English compound, hiding in plain sight: "eye" plus "lid." The "eye" half traces back through Old English ēage to a Proto-Germanic root shared across the family (German Auge, Dutch oog), and ultimately to a Proto-Indo-European source that also gave Latin oculus and Greek ophthalmos. "Lid" comes from Old English hlid, meaning a cover or gate — the same word you'd use for the lid of a pot. So an eyelid is, quite literally and rather charmingly, the lid that covers the eye.
- thinnest skin
- Your eyelids wear the body's thinnest skin
- blink count
- Roughly 28,000 blinks every single day
- reflex speed
- Slams shut in a tenth of a second
- dream tells
- Eyes twitch beneath them during REM sleep
- no fat
- Only eyelids lack a fat layer