Anatomy def: flat muscle of each bony orbit that elevates and retracts the upper eyelid
Outlander def: a clever wee muscle that opens big bonny eyes of blue!
Learn about LPS in Anatomy Lesson #29, “The Eyes Have It!” or “The Eyes- Part One.”
Read about Claire contracting her LPS muscles as she opens her eyes (at the pillory) in Outlander book:
Speculations, suggestions, and shocked interjections rained on me, thicker than the drops of water from the sky, but it was a pair of familiar arms that raised me to a sitting position, and a pair of gravely concerned blue eyes that I saw when I opened my own. A faint flicker of the eyelids told me that the mission had been accomplished…
See Jamie contract his LPS muscles and open his big baby blues as Claire calls him a g.d. bloody bastard! Och! What’s that ye said lass? I can see yer lips movin’ but ye are so purty I canna hear a word yer sayin’ (Starz episode 101, Sassenach!)…only the echoes of my mind!
A deeply grateful,
Outlander Anatomist