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Retractor

noun
1.
Surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision.






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"Retractor" Quotes from Famous Books



... other. Their contraction causes the proboscis to be invaginated into its cavity (fig. 2). But the whole proboscis apparatus can also be, at least partially, withdrawn into the body cavity, and this is effected by two retractor muscles which run from the posterior aspect of the septum to the body ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



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