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  • n  a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)

  • But, continues Wulsin, "once lengthened by tension, these fibrous connections (Cooper's suspensory ligaments) do not resume youthful dimensions, and despite hopeful legend, no .
  • He would reduce the powers of the Senate to the undignified status abhorred by the British Lords; that is, he would make it an empty debating chamber with a suspensory veto .
  • Dennett thereupon asked for a "suspensory veto" on financial proposals.
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    Freedom Child, runaway winner of the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont Park in May, emerged from the Jim Dandy with a high suspensory ligament tear in a hind leg and has been retired to Country Life Farm in Maryland.
    Aug. 15, 2013 - Daily Racing Form
  • Peter Pan winner Freedom Child retired to Country Life Farm
    Freedom Child, runaway winner of the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont Park in May, emerged from the Jim Dandy with a high suspensory ligament tear in a hind leg and has been retired.
    Aug. 11, 2013 - Daily Racing Form
Quotes

  • Gai Waterhouse in Daily Telegraph
    We don't want to place any pressure on her, she will tell us when she is ready,Waterhouse said. "Remember a horse called Pharaoh? He won back-to-back Doncasters in 1994 and 1995 after he had done his suspensory on two occasions. I...
  • Todd Pletcher in ESPN
    He had some inflammation in his right fore, and we have diagnosed a soft tissue, suspensory issue,Pletcher said Monday from his Belmont Park office. "He'll go to Overbrook for some follow-up diagnostic evaluation, and we'll see whether...

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