retinaculum

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A connecting band.
 * the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves
 * 1)  One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
 * 2)  One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
 * 3)  A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
 * 4)  A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

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Noun

 * 1) holdfast, tether, halter, hawser, band

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