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depressor

noun

de·​pres·​sor di-ˈpre-sər How to pronounce depressor (audio)
dē-
: one that depresses: such as
a
: a muscle that draws down a part compare levator
b
: a device for pressing down or aside
c
: a nerve or nerve fiber that decreases the activity or the tone of the organ or the part it innervates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The TytoCare medical device comes with a thermometer, stethoscope and tongue depressor among other things. Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 Leptin is produced by fat cells and is best known as a depressor of appetite. Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022 As Asma helped arrange paper flowers in a basket on the dining room table, Aqsa — who wore a plastic stethoscope around her neck — used a tongue depressor to check inside Gulsom’s mouth. Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021 Voters will have access to hand sanitizer and will be given a disposable stick that looks like a tongue depressor to mark their votes on the voting machine's touchscreen. Pat Beall And John Moritz, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020 Biology professors, as well as local school districts, have also teamed up to donate Nitrile gloves, sterile tongue depressors and swabs. Jessie Gomez, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020 Displays cover everything from early medical instruments (forceps, tongue depressors and tonsillotomes, also called tonsil guillotines) to MRI coils. Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019 The next morning, a dentist levered my teeth back into place with a tongue depressor and cemented them in line. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019 More from Morning Mix: A girl licked a tongue depressor at a clinic and put it back. Washington Post, 12 July 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin, from Latin deprimere

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of depressor was in 1611

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