One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle
A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants
A connecting band; a frænum; as, the retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves