suspensory

suspensory /sus·pen·so·ry/ (sus-pen´sor-e)

1. serving to hold up a part.

2. a ligament, bone, muscle, sling, or bandage that serves to hold up a part.

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sus·pen·so·ry (s-spns-r)

adj.

Of or relating to a ligament, muscle, or other structure that supports or suspends an organ or another part.

n.

1. A support or truss.

2. An athletic supporter.

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suspensory

1. serving to hold up a part.

2. a ligament, bone, muscle, bandage or sling for supporting a part.

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suspensory ligament

1. the modified interosseous muscle of the horse that arises from the palmar carpal ligament behind the knee (or the hock in the hindlimb) and suspends the pair of sesamoid bones behind the fetlock. The distal continuation of the ligament is composed of the cruciate, oblique and straight sesamoidian ligaments and the pair of extensor branches that unite with the common digital extensor tendon.

2. various other supporting ligaments.

suspensory ligament of the lens

delicate ligament suspending the lens from the ciliary body of the eye.

ovarian suspensory ligament

a peritoneal fold which forms the cranial limit to the mesovarium.

rupture of udder suspensory ligament

the medial attachment separates, the udder floor drops down and outwards so that the teats point laterally. The cow is difficult to milk, especially with a machine.