suspensorium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals

Word forms

suspensorium suspensoria

Etymology

From New Latin

Related words

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