attollent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ATTOL'LENT, adjective [Latin attollens, attollo, of ad and tollor, to lift.] Lifting up; raising; as an attollent muscle. ATTOL'LENT, noun a muscle which raises some part, as the ear, the tip of the nose, or the upper eye lid; otherwise called levator and elevator.
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