levator

noun

A muscle that raises a bodily part.

noun

A surgical instrument for lifting the depressed fragments of a fractured skull.

noun

In anatomy, that which raises or elevates, as various muscles of the human body: opposed to depressor.

noun

A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.

noun

A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.

noun

A surgical instrument used to raise a depressed part of the skull.

noun

lifting muscle

noun

a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)