LEVATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does levator mean? 

• LEVATOR (noun)
  The noun LEVATOR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LEVATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("levator" is a kind of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

 Context examples 

A laboratory specimen consisting of the bulbocavernosus and the levator ani.

(Levator Ani/Bulbospongiosus, NCI Thesaurus)

A tissue sample that contains the bulbocavernosus and the levator ani.

(Levator Ani/Bulbospongiosus, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The oculomotor nerve sends motor fibers to the levator muscles of the eyelid and to the superior rectus, inferior rectus, and inferior oblique muscles of the eye.

(Oculomotor Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.

(Nucleus Ambiguus, NCI Thesaurus)