depressor : Idioms & Phrases


depressor muscle

  • noun any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
    depressor.
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Depressor nerve

  • noun any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
    depressor.
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  • (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.
Webster 1913

tongue depressor

  • noun a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat
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