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levator

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

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

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The upper third are the levator ani muscles (transcervical, pubocervical ) and the sacrocervical ligaments; these areas are also described as the cardinal ligaments laterally and uterosacral ligaments posterolaterally. Source: Internet

Aranzi discovered the 'Nodules of Aranzio' in the semilunar valves of the heart and wrote the first description of the superior levator palpebral and the coracobrachialis muscles. Source: Internet

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