Sustentacular: alternatives and connections

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining l…

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anc…

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…

a self-sustaining nuclear reaction; a series of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by splitting one atom leads to the splitti…

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…

Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will,…

an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary plac…

The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and in…

An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of pl…

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.