CONTRACTOR

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 17

(Lat.). n. m. Ko2n-tra2k(tra3k)'to2r. Gen., contractor'is. A muscle the action of which is to render a part tense; a tensor. C. chorda; [Oehl]. A bundle of muscular fibres extending between the left auriculo-ventricular valve and the wall of the ventricle, lying in certain of the chordae tendineae. [A, 262; L, 31.] [s. 385]