levator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an anatomical muscle that raises the body part to which it is attached

   The levator claviculae raises the collarbone and is normally absent as a distinct muscle in humans.

Borrowed from New Latin levator, 'one that raises,' from Latin levare, 'to lift or lighten,' with the agent suffix -tor. Anatomical Latin uses levator in names for muscles whose action is to raise a structure.

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