a. Anat. [f. next + -AL.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a suspensorium; suspensory.
1871. Huxley, Anat. Vert., iii. 136. In the Holocephali the palato-quadrate and suspensorial cartilages are united with one another and with the skull into a continuous cartilaginous plate.
1873. Mivart, Elem. Anat., iii. 143. A comparatively minute pair of jaws are suspended at the end of a disproportionately large suspensorial structure.
