'Depressor' definitions:
Definition of 'depressor'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down [syn: depressor, depressor muscle]
noun
Any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves [syn: depressor, depressor nerve]
noun
A device used by physician to press a part down or aside
Definition of 'Depressor'
From: GCIDE
- Depressor \De*press"or\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. [1913 Webster]
- Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart. [1913 Webster]