Crossword-Solution: SUSPENSORIUM
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| Suspensorium | n. | Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals. |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SUSPENSORIUM (5)
Gunther, of the British Museum, where he was appointed Keeper of the Department of Zoology in 1875.] We will work up the Amphibia as they have not been done since they were crea-- I mean evolved." [The question of the pedicle comes up again when he simplifies some of Parker's results as to the development of the Columella auris in the Frog.] "Your suprahyomandibular is nothing but the pedicle of the suspensorium over again.
Its skeleton segmented, as in mammals and birds, into three parts; the upper part gave rise to the palatine and pterygoid in Anura, but seemed to disappear in Urodeles, where the so-called palatine and pterygoid developed in the mucous membrane of the mouth; the middle part gave, as in birds, the quadrate, which formed a suspensorium for both arches; the lower part, as Meckel's cartilage, formed a foundation for the bones of the lower jaw.
The quadrate cartilage of the frog is superseded by the squamosal as the suspensorium of the lower jaw.
Hence these small bones seem to be the relics of the discarded jaw suspensorium of the frog utilized in a new function.
The suspensorium.+ The device known as the suspensorium, represented by von den Steinen,[1420] is obviously invented solely for the convenience of males in activity.