1. Any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
   - depressor muscle 
2. Any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
   - depressor nerve 
3. A device used by physician to press a part down or aside

Derived forms: depressors

See also: depress

Type of: device, nerve, nervus, skeletal muscle, striated muscle

Encyclopedia: Depressor

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