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Webster 1913 Edition
Levator
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Levator
LEVA'TOR
,Noun.
1.
In anatomy, a muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.2.
A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.Definition 2024
levator
levator
Latin
Verb
levātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of levō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of levō
References
- levator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- LEVATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “levator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.