Usually means: Supporting or sustaining structural tissue.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustentacular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. sustentacular: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sustentacular: Vocabulary.com
  4. sustentacular: Wordnik
  5. sustentacular: Wiktionary
  6. sustentacular: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sustentacular: Dictionary.com
  8. Sustentacular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. sustentacular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. sustentacular: Rhymezone
  11. Sustentacular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sustentacular: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sustentacular: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. sustentacular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. sustentacular: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sustentacular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustentacular: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sustentacular: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sustentacular)

▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Serving to support or sustain.

Similar:
sustenacular, suspensory, subserosal, ancillary, underslung, conjunctival, auxiliary, supplemental, subsclerotic, subcapsular, more...

Opposite:
unsupportive, non-sustaining, destabilizing

Phrases:
sustentacular cells, sustentacular cell, more...

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Similar:
sustenacular, suspensory, subserosal, ancillary, underslung, conjunctival, auxiliary, supplemental, subsclerotic, subcapsular, more...

Opposite:
unsupportive, non-sustaining, destabilizing

Phrases:
sustentacular cells, sustentacular cell, more...



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