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Retractor meaning
One who, or that which, retracts. | In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. | A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
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Example sentences (5)
The Alexis wound retractor is a large object made of transparent plastic fixed on two rings.
At present, marine traffic through the retractor span of the 41-year-old bridge has been halted.
At the posterior end, a hardened caudal shield is sometimes present in Aspidosiphon. citation Digestive system The digestive tract of sipunculans starts with the esophagus, located between the introvert retractor muscles.
The introvert is retractable into the trunk via two pairs of retractor muscles that extend as narrow ribbons from the trunk wall to attachment points in the introvert.
The whole proboscis apparatus can also be, at least partially, withdrawn into the body cavity, and this is effected by two retractor muscles which run from the posterior aspect of the septum to the body wall.