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Levator   Listen
noun
Levator  n.  
1.
(Anat.) A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.
2.
(Surg.) A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.






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"Levator" Quotes from Famous Books



... child of American parents. In a girl of eight, of German parents, he reports deficiency of the external walls of each orbit, in addition to great deformity of the side of the head. He also gives an instance of congenital paralysis of the levator palpebrae muscles in a child whose vision was perfect and who was otherwise perfect. Holmes also reports a case of enormous congenital exophthalmos, in which the right eye protruded from the orbit and was no longer covered by the cornea. Kinney has an account of ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Levator" :   musculus, muscle



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