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noun
A thin flat extrinsic muscle of the eye arising from the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone, passing forward and downward over the superior rectus, and inserting into the tarsal plate of the skin of the upper eyelid which it elevates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: levator
History
Borrowed from New Latin levātor palpebrae superiōris (“lifter of the superior eyelid”).
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
