suspensory

1. Supporting or suspending: a suspensory bandage.
2. Delaying completion.

1. A support or truss.
2. An athletic supporter.

Of or relating to a ligament, muscle, or other structure that supports or suspends an organ or another part.

1. A support or truss.
2. An athletic supporter.

1. serving to hold up a part.
2. a ligament, bone, muscle, bandage or sling for supporting a part.

• s. ligament — 1. the modified interosseous muscle of the horse that arises from the palmar carpal ligament behind the knee (or the hock in the hindlimb) and suspends the pair of sesamoid bones behind the fetlock. The distal continuation of the ligament is composed of the cruciate, oblique and straight sesamoidian ligaments and the pair of extensor branches that unite with the common digital extensor tendon.
— 2. various other supporting ligaments.
• s. ligament of the lens — delicate ligament suspending the lens from the ciliary body of the eye.
• ovarian s. ligament — a peritoneal fold which forms the cranial limit to the mesovarium.
• rupture of udder s. ligament — the medial attachment separates, the udder floor drops down and outwards so that the teats point laterally. The cow is difficult to milk, especially with a machine.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast)
  Synonym: suspensory bandage