depressor

noun

a device used by physician to press a part down or aside

any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves

any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down

Roots

dede- · Latin · down premerepress- · Latin · to press or-or · Latin · agent noun

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