Crossword clues for depressor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depressor \De*press"or\, n.
One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
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(Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that depresses 2 An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination 3 Any of several muscles that pull down 4 Anything that lowers blood pressure
WordNet
n. any skeletal muscle that draws a part down [syn: depressor muscle]
any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves [syn: depressor nerve]
a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "depressor".
A big cigar and several tongue depressors protrude from his white lab coat, and a red stethoscope hangs around his neck.
Mostly these were wooden tongue depressors, such as doctors used, orangewood sticks, some spoons, and a blunt knife.
He dropped five tongue depressors onto the pile on the shim mering fabric of the medical diagnostic bed, and in his most authoritative voice, he said, 'Tll see your five.
To Kirk's chagrin, however, the pile of tongue depressors was deepest on the blanket beside Sarek.
Now as the depressors have been repeatedly brought into strong action during infancy in many generations, nerve-force will tend to flow, on the principle of long associated habit, to these muscles as well as to various other facial muscles, whenever in after life even a slight feeling of distress is experienced.
But as the depressors are somewhat less under the control of the will than most of the other muscles, we might expect that they would often slightly contract, whilst the others remained passive.
Carol took one of the tongue depressors out of its crisp cellophane wrapper-just in case.
Carol took one of the tongue depressors out of its crisp cellophane wrapper—just in case.
The contraction of the depressor muscle is best seen in infants when not screaming violently, and especially just before they begin, or when they cease to scream.
A tongue depressor can serve as a ramp to the top of the jar, making it even easier for the insects to get up and into the container.
He stuck the tongue depressor in her mouth and peered down her throat with the flashlight.
And unbeknownst to the women, that tongue depressor had on it a small dose of LSD.
Danny sat down in the surgeon's chair, and Todd began to apply a gray goo-SS electrode compound-to the spots on Danny's scalp which he had just cleaned, using a tongue depressor with deft strokes.
Danny sat down in the surgeons chair, and Todd began to apply a gray gooSS electrode compoundto the spots on Dannys scalp which he had just cleaned, using a tongue depressor with deft strokes.
Which not only knocked him out but neutralized the reactive agents that he had absorbed through the mucous membranes in his mouth-put there by the tongue depressor.