Usually means: Band holding tendons against bones.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word retinaculum:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. retinaculum: Merriam-Webster
  2. retinaculum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. retinaculum: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retinaculum: Wordnik
  5. retinaculum: Wiktionary
  6. retinaculum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. retinaculum: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. retinaculum: Dictionary.com
  9. Retinaculum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Retinaculum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retinaculum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Retinaculum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. retinaculum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. retinaculum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. retinaculum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retinaculum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. retinaculum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. retinaculum: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Retinaculum: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

(Note: See retinacula as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retinaculum)

noun:  (anatomy) A connecting band.
noun:  (anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
noun:  (zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
noun:  (zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
noun:  (botany) 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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