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suspensory

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1. suspensory - Noun

2. suspensory - Adjective

Meaning

Suspended; hanging; depending.

Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.

Of or pertaining to a suspensorium.

That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss

a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The suspensory Cooper's ligaments are fibrous-tissue prolongations that radiate from the superficial fascia to the skin envelope. Source: Internet

Shoulder mobility would support suspensory locomotion behaviors which are present in human bipedalism. Source: Internet

The mobility is conferred to it by musculo-fibrous apparatus that consists of suspensory and sustentacular part. Source: Internet

Under normal circumstances the suspensory part keeps the uterus in anteflexion and anteversion (in 90% of women) and keeps it "floating" in the pelvis. Source: Internet

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