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le·va·tor (lə vāt′ər)

noun pl. levatores lev′a·to′·res′ (lev′ə tôr′ēz′) or levators le·va′·tors

  1. a muscle that raises a limb or other part of the body
  2. a surgical instrument for lifting depressed fragments of bone in a skull fracture

Etymology: ModL < pp. of L levare, to raise: see lever

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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