levators
Muscles that elevate
Levators are muscles that lift a body part.
The term is anatomical, from Latin for "one who lifts." Various levators raise the upper lip, elevate the shoulder blade, or lift the soft palate during swallowing.
Singular: levator.
muscles
Contractile body tissue
- elevatorsVertical passenger conveyances
- scapulaeFlat posterior shoulder bones
- aniTropical cuckoo relative
rhomboids · trapezius · insertion · origin · innervation · contraction · shoulder · blade · rib · eyelid
anatomical function
levatorsdepressors
Things that press downward
retractors · protractors · adductors · abductors · flexors