What is "depressors"

Usage examples of "depressors".

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.