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Definition of Levators
1. levator [n] - See also: levator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levators
Literary usage of Levators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Gynaecology by Thomas Addis Emmet (1884)
"The vagina in its elasticity will remain uninjured, whilst the levators may
separate or be ruptured. We see an analogous condition in the diastasis of the ..."
2. Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde by Ernst Fuchs (1893)
"Für jene Fülle, wo die Wirkung des levators nur geschwächt, ... der Sehne des
levators. um diesen Muskel unter günstigere Bedingungen für seine Wirkung zu ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by John Milton Scudder, Robert Safford Newton (1857)
""In all persons possessed of very powerful levators-ani, the extremity of the
rectum will be highly retracted within the pelvis, and retained thero by the ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"of the pelvis, where the symphysis is normal, the two levators of the anus have
their usual origins. From each of the normal ischial tuberosities, ..."
5. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1913)
"The vaginal flap is held out of the way while the surgeon transfixes and unites
the levators. A triangular section of the vaginal flap corresponding in size ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1891)
"2. Rupture of the perineum with radiating tears into the sulci. 3. Rupture of
the perineum through the sphincter ani without injury to the levators ..."
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