laxator

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English

Etymology

From Latin laxare, laxatum (“to loosen”).

Noun

laxator (plural laxators)

  1. (anatomy, dated, deprecated) A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “laxator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

laxātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of laxō
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