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levator
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun levator has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid. [1913 Webster]
- A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
levator, n. a muscle that lifts the structure into which it is inserted.
Etymology
L, = one who lifts f. levare raise
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