Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Supporting or suspending.
- adjective Delaying completion.
- noun A support or truss.
- noun An athletic supporter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and zoology, adapted or serving to suspend a part or organ; suspending; suspensorial: as, the cremaster is a suspensory muscle; the quadrate is a suspensory bone.
- In surgery, forming a special kind of sling, in which an injured or diseased part is suspended: as, a suspensory bandage or belt for the scrotum in orchitis.
- Suspending; causing interruption or delay; staying effect or operation: as, a suspensory proposal.
- noun A suspensory muscle, ligament, bone, or bandage; a suspensorium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Suspended; hanging; depending.
- adjective Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.
- noun (Med.) That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Held in suspension.
- adjective Holding in suspension.
- adjective
Suspensive . - noun Something that
suspends . - noun Specifically the
suspensory ligament
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Earlier research by other authors indicated that for monkeys this suspensory way of locomotion might be a more energetically efficient way of transportation than ‘regular’ walking on the ground.
Living Upside-Down Shapes Spiders for Energy Saving Staq Mavlen 2008
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The button-hole, I have said, is a modern invention; Urwah is also applied to the loopshaped handle of the water-skin, for attachment of the Allákah or suspensory thong.
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I put slight pressure on this suspensory ligament, and the dog's breathing becomes more rapid.
What Hands Can Do 2008
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I can make it into the abdomen and locate the uterus and trace it up to the swelling of the ovary and begin to strum the suspensory ligament, but that's it.
What Hands Can Do 2008
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I put slight pressure on this suspensory ligament, and the dog's breathing becomes more rapid.
What Hands Can Do 2008
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Earlier research by other authors indicated that for monkeys this suspensory way of locomotion might be a more energetically efficient way of transportation than ‘regular’ walking on the ground.
Archive 2008-03-01 Staq Mavlen 2008
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I can make it into the abdomen and locate the uterus and trace it up to the swelling of the ovary and begin to strum the suspensory ligament, but that's it.
What Hands Can Do 2008
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For length, the penis is separated from its mooring — its suspensory ligaments — and, essentially, given a yank to bring more penis above-board.
The Transom 2006
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For length, the penis is separated from its mooring — its suspensory ligaments — and, essentially, given a yank to bring more penis above-board.
The Transom 2006
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For length, the penis is separated from its mooring — its suspensory ligaments — and, essentially, given a yank to bring more penis above-board.
The Transom 2006
chained_bear commented on the word suspensory
"But because Dan was unable to move much due to his chronic pastern and suspensory problems, his life was sometimes dull. After Plummer quit in 1912... workers on the farm began taking turns bringing the pacer home with them for one- to three-day stretches. Kelly Madigan Erlandson, a great-granddaughter of a Savage farmhand named Michael Egan, remembers her grandmother Effie telling stories of walking into the backyard with her girlfriends and finding Dan Patch standing beside her mother's garden, munching on grass. Effie and her sister would sometimes climb on the horse and ride him bareback. You could always take Dan anywhere."
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 324
October 28, 2008