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Retractor   Listen
noun
Retractor  n.  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically:
(a)
In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
(b)
(Surg.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.
(c)
(Surg.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.
(d)
(Anat. & Zool.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Retractor" Quotes from Famous Books



... publication of one of his libels in the press, Kenrick was met by Goldsmith accidentally in the Chapter and made to admit that he had lied. But no sooner had the poet left the house than the cowardly retractor began his abuse again to the company ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... other. Their contraction causes the proboscis to be invaginated into its cavity (fig. 2). But the whole proboscis apparatus can also be, at least partially, withdrawn into the body cavity, and this is effected by two retractor muscles which run from the posterior aspect of the septum to the body ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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