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Definition of Retractors
1. retractor [n] - See also: retractor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retractors
Literary usage of Retractors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgical and Gynaecological Nursing by Edward Mason Parker, Scott Dudley Breckinridge (1916)
"Exposing instruments: retractors. (1) Sharp hook retractors (Simon's, ... (5)
Langenbeck's; (6) Freer'« retractors. is that of the dissecting forceps (Fig. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1899)
"The free muscles belong to two groups : (1) retractors of the hue- cal mass, ...
The buccal and tentacle retractors, with the foot retractor or ..."
3. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Henry Meyners Bernard, Matilda Bernard, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"It gives off three subsidiary branches—(1) the retractor muscles of the optic
and other tentacles ; (2) the retractors of the buccal mass ; (3) muscles ..."
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