Serving to lift up or raise something; relating to muscles or forces that pull upward (medical/anatomical term).
From Latin attollere (ad- 'to' + tollere 'to lift, raise') + -ent suffix. Used in anatomy to describe muscles that elevate or lift body parts.
Anatomists use 'attollent' for muscles like your elevator palpebrae (which lifts your eyelid)—the same Latin 'tollere' that gives us 'extol' (to praise, literally 'to lift up')!
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