What is "suspensorium"

Suspensorium \Sus`pen*so"ri*um\, n.; pl. Suspensoria. [NL.] (Anat.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

n. (context anatomy English) Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the ''mandibular suspensorium'', a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.