| 单词 |
adjustor |
| 释义 |
adjustor Anat. and Zool.|əˈdʒʌstə(r)| [f. adjust v., after L. agent-nouns in -or, as retractor.] Name for certain muscles in Brachiopoda; see quot. 1895. Also attrib. in adjustor muscle.
1895Shipley in Cambr. Nat. Hist. III. 477 There are three pairs of adjustor muscles..called respectively the central.., external.., and posterior..adjustors, whose action adjusts the shells when all contract together, and brings about a certain sliding movement of the shells on one another when they act independently. 1923Glasgow Herald 11 Aug. 4 The more adjustors a creature has, the higher its capacity for effective behaviour. |

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