levator

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a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)

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The most important component of the physical exam in patients with the symptoms of frequency, urgency, and pelvic pain--and the most overlooked --is assessment of the levator muscles for tightness and tenderness.
The broad picture of IC and painful bladder syndrome
sup][1],[2] The well-established explanation has been the inadequate resection of the lesion in the APR, which usually creates a stricture at the levator muscle level.
Application of Laparoscopic Extralevator Abdominoperineal Excision in Locally Advanced Low Rectal Cancer
In early stages levator muscles are oriented in an antero-posterior direction.
Jaw muscle development and metamorphosis in tadpoles of Eastern Narrowmouth toads (Gastrophryne carolinensis: microhylidae)
Andrews, professor of physiology and director of the Independent Study Pathway at the Lake Erie College of OsteoA[degrees]pathic Medicine, has explained that the heaviness of the muscles around the eyes, including the levator muscles that open the upper eyelids, is similar to fatigue of any muscle of the body.
Why our eyelids get heavy when we are tired
In sum, the paired levator muscles are the primary muscles of closure but other muscles contribute differentially during speech production.
Treatment of velopharyngeal closure for speech: discussion and implications for management
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