Retractor vs Retinaculum - What's the difference?
retractor | retinaculum |
One who, or that which, retracts.
In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
(chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
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(anatomy) A connecting band.
(anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
(zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
(zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
(botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between retractor and retinaculum
is that retractor is one who, or that which, retracts while retinaculum is (anatomy) a connecting band.retractor
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(en noun)retinaculum
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(retinacula)- the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves