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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving to suspend; of the nature or having the function of a suspensor; specifically, of or pertaining to the suspensorium of the lower jaw: as, the hyomandibular or suspensorial cartilage.

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Examples

  • The point of attachment of the jaw has shifted outward, and the original suspensorial cartilage (the quadrate) has taken on a new and minor function as the incus of the middle ear -- the squamosal superseding it as the suspensory part.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Criminals are generally athletic; constitution and conscience equally tough; large backs to their heads; strong suspensorial muscles; digestions that save them from the over-fine nerves of the virtuous.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Criminals are generally athletic; constitution and conscience equally tough; large backs to their heads; strong suspensorial muscles; digestions that save them from the over-fine nerves of the virtuous.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Finally the embryological facts now observed in the development of the bones of the skull were of great importance,] "as they enable us to understand, on the one hand, the different modifications of the palato-suspensorial apparatus in fishes, and on the other hand the relations of the components of this apparatus to the corresponding parts in other Vertebrata," [fishes, reptiles, and mammals presenting a well-marked series of gradations in respect to this point.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Finally the embryological facts now observed in the development of the bones of the skull were of great importance,] "as they enable us to understand, on the one hand, the different modifications of the palato-suspensorial apparatus in fishes, and on the other hand the relations of the components of this apparatus to the corresponding parts in other Vertebrata," [fishes, reptiles, and mammals presenting a well-marked series of gradations in respect to this point.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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