retinaculum (English, noun)
expansion: retinaculum (plural retinacula)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A connecting band.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: retinacula
tags: plural