divaricator noun2 •A surgical device for spreading the surroundings and holding open the area in which one is operating.In 1987, Griffith12 proposed an endonasal sphenoidotomy through a sphenoethmoidal recess. Here it is also necessary to use a divaricator. — 2010 •One of the muscles that open the shell of a brachiopod; a cardinal muscle. formsdivaricators
