Crossword-Solution: RETRACTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retractor | n. | One who, or that which, retracts. |
| Retractor | n. | In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. |
| Retractor | n. | An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation. |
| Retractor | n. | A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation. |
| Retractor | n. | A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “RETRACTOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Medical instrument | 1 answer |
| Muscle that draws back an organ | 1 answer |
| Surgical instrument used for holding open a surface incision | 1 answer |
| any of various muscles that retract an organ or part | 1 answer |
| Surgical tool | 9 answers |
| surgical instrument | 10 answers |
| CERTAIN MUSCLE | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETRACTOR (5)
But no sooner had the poet left the house than the cowardly retractor began his abuse again to the company at large.
The string stretched across the stomach from the cardia to the pylorus, is fished out with the author's pillar retractor, or is found with the retrograde esophagoscope (Fig.
The retractor muscle also consists of four muscular slips, repeating the straight muscles on a smaller scale, but as they are only attached on the back part of the eyeball they are less adapted to roll the eye than to draw it down into its socket.
This is a structure which, like the retractor muscle, is not found in the eye of man, but it serves in the lower animals to assist in removing foreign bodies from the front of the eyeball.
The same species of Chiton, with the shells removed and the dorsal integument reflected, _b_, buccal mass; _m_, retractor muscles of the buccal mass; _ov_, ovary; _od_, oviduct; _i_, coils of intestines; _ao_, aorta; _c'_, left auricle; _c_, ventricle.] [Illustration: FIG.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1983–2003).