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Webster 1913 Edition


Suspensorium

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Susˊpen-so′ri-um

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Noun.
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pl.
Suspensoria
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[NL.]
(Anat.)
Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.