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suspensory

NOUN
  1. a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)

How To Use suspensory In A Sentence

  • The colt, who was sidelined from racing for a year from September 2001 to this September after tearing a suspensory ligament in his left front leg, fractured the splint bone and chipped a piece of the sesamsoid bone in the same leg.
  • Actions brought before the Court of Justice shall not have suspensory effect.
  • He later pulled a suspensory muscle in a leg while preparing for his return earlier this year.
  • The black gibbon is a true brachiator which means it moves by suspensory behavior.
  • This vascular and nervous unit is contained in a band or fold of the peritoneum that is called the suspensory ligament of the ovary.
  • This section is all about the clitoris and its many wonderful parts: clitoris, hood of clitoris, glans of clitoris, shaft of clitoris, suspensory ligament, crura, bulbs of the vestibule, and vestibular glands. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
  • Positioned as they are, between the bifurcations of the suspensory ligament and the pastern joint, they serve as fulcra and effectively assist in minimizing concussion which is received by the suspensory ligament. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • The suspensory ligament of the right ovary is identified in this section.
  • Fortunately the gyratory movement of the water was opposite to that of the suspensory screws, otherwise the aeronef would have been hurled into the sea. Robur the Conqueror
  • It rests, behind, in the hyaloid fossa in the forepart of the vitreous body; in front, it is in contact with the free border of the iris, but recedes from it at the circumference, thus forming the posterior chamber of the eye; it is retained in its position chiefly by the suspensory ligament of the lens, already described. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media
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