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divaricators

divaricators is the plural of divaricator.

Meaning of divaricator

Noun

divaricator (plural divaricators)

  1. One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle.
    • The relative position of the adductor and divaricator impressions varies somewhat in different species of the genus, as we have already described; thus, in P. giganteus, P. longispinus, &c., the divaricators are situated immediately under and outside of the adductor, while in P. pustulosus, P....1862, Thomas Davidson, William Herbert Dalton, A Monograph of the British Fossil Brachiopoda, page 277
  2. A surgical device for spreading the surroundings and holding open the area in which one is operating.
    • An operation case containing: 1. A tongue forceps. 2. Heister's gag. 3. Author's ringed gag. 4. Three Krishaber's tracheotomoy tubes for children and adults. 5. One divaricator of the commissure. 6. One divaricator of the molars. […]1917, Eugène-Louis Doyen, Surgical Therapeutics and Operative Technique - Volume 1, page 228

Questions about divaricators

What is divaricators the plural of?
Divaricators is the plural of divaricator.

Words near divaricators in the dictionary

  1. divaricating
  2. divaricatingly
  3. divarication
  4. divarications
  5. divaricator
  6. divaricators
  7. divaricoside
  8. divas
  9. divast
  10. divata
  11. divatas

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