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suspensorium
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See also: Suspensorium
English
Etymology
From New Latin
Noun
suspensorium (plural suspensoria)
- (anatomy) Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals
- fish suspensorium
Related terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suspensorium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Danish
Etymology
From Latin suspendere (“hang up, suspend”), from sub- + pendere (“hang”).
Pronunciation
Noun
suspensorium n (singular definite suspensoriet, plural indefinite suspensorier)
Inflection
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Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
suspensorium n (definite singular suspensoriet, indefinite plural suspensorier, definite plural suspensoria or suspensoriene)
References
- “suspensorium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “suspensorium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “suspensorium” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
suspensorium n (definite singular suspensoriet, indefinite plural suspensorium, definite plural suspensoria)
References
- “suspensorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “suspensorium” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
suspensorium n
Further reading
- suspensorium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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