Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Anatomy A muscle that raises a bodily part.
- n. A surgical instrument for lifting the depressed fragments of a fractured skull.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, that which raises or elevates, as various muscles of the human body: opposed to depressor.
- n. A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
- n. (Surg.) A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)
Etymologies
- New Latin, from Medieval Latin levātor, one that raises, from Latin levāre, to raise; see lever. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“• The Canine (one-third of people): Here a particular muscle (called the levator labii superioris, for you anatomy junkies) is dominant and exposes the canine teeth before the full smile.”
“CHAPEL HILL -- A new study conducted by Italian researchers, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, finds that biofeedback is more effective than two other treatments for a type of chronic rectal pain called levator ani syndrome.”
“This pain often gets worse during bowel movements because of pressure on a muscle in the pelvic floor called the levator ani.”
“A new study conducted by Italian researchers, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, finds that biofeedback is more effective than two other treatments for a type of chronic rectal pain called levator ani syndrome.”
“Or I guess I mean hell's summer, her nasal bone burrowed into my levator, her wet smile making the hairs along my neckline straighten, each one exclamated with a goosebump.”
“The two straighten, then bow, then sit up, ocular level again, she pounces, wilting him at the levator.”
“I would jump on a landmine for you, or take a bullet, or spend three days with gotalife in a stuck levator for you.”
“The levator scapulae is a muscle that runs from the back of your skull to the upper corner of your shoulder blade.”
“Example, levator veli palatini, raises (levator) the palate (palatini), or obicularis (orbits or encircles) oculi (the eyes).”
“And those of the soft palate are the levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, palatopharyngeus, tensor veli palatini and musculus uvulae.”
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