suspensory

Supporting or suspending.

Delaying completion.

A support or truss.

An athletic supporter.

In anatomy and zoology, adapted or serving to suspend a part or organ; suspending; suspensorial: as, the cremaster is a suspensory muscle; the quadrate is a suspensory bone.

In surgery, forming a special kind of sling, in which an injured or diseased part is suspended: as, a suspensory bandage or belt for the scrotum in orchitis.

Suspending; causing interruption or delay; staying effect or operation: as, a suspensory proposal.

A suspensory muscle, ligament, bone, or bandage; a suspensorium.

Suspended; hanging; depending.

Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending.