Depressor
nounid
43395·updated May 18, 2026verified
any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- depressor muscledepressor nerve
- plural
- Depressors
- possessive
- Depressor's
- pluralpossessive
- Depressors'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- §2
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- §3
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
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