depressor

1. 1.

   any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down

   Synonymsdepressor muscle

   Broaderskeletal muscle
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsdepressor nerve

   Broadernerve
3. 3.

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

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowertongue depressor

Other forms of depressor

plural

depressors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depressor

What does depressor mean?

depressor means "any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depressor?

depressor has 3 syllables: de-pres-sor. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for depressor?

Close synonyms include depressor muscle, depressor nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depressor a common word?

depressor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.