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n. Anatomy A muscle that raises a bodily part.

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

n. lifting muscle

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

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

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

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

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

"• The Canine (one-third of people): Here a particular muscle (called the levator labii superioris, for you anatomy junkies) is dominant and exposes the canine teeth before the full smile."

muscle    musculus   

levator humeri proprius    levator labii superioris    levator menti    levator proprius alæ nasi    levator prostatæ    levatores costarum    levator palpebræ superioris    levator anguli oris    levator arcuum    levator anguli scapulæ   

labii    depressor    half-decade    venae    vene    upper-body    adductor    quadriceps    appendicular    thousand-year