Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which suspends; a suspensor or suspender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy Anything that
suspends or holds up a part, especially themandibular suspensorium, a series of bones orcartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in mostvertebrates belowmammals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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+ The device known as the suspensorium, represented by von den Steinen, [1420] is obviously invented solely for the convenience of males in activity.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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I went out to dinner, still wearing the condominium-suspensorium.
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In developing Amphibia Huxley found a suspensorium of hyoid and mandibular arches similar to the hyomandibular of fish.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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As a result of the inflation of the brain-case, the squamosal, which slopes downward and outward in the frog, and overlies the cartilaginous suspensorium (quadrate cartilage), has become a constituent of the brain-case wall, and slopes downwardly and in.
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The quadrate cartilage of the frog is superseded by the squamosal as the suspensorium of the lower jaw.
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Hence these small bones seem to be the relics of the discarded jaw suspensorium of the frog utilized in a new function.
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The pterygoids in the dog are much reduced, and do not reach back to the suspensorium.
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The Moslem women make triangular aprons, worn by men over the suspensorium.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The purpose was to protect it from injury, and it furnishes suggestion as to the purpose of the primitive suspensorium.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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+ It appears that athletes in Greece bound the organ and tied it up to the girdle in a manner closely resembling the primitive suspensorium.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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