depressor muscle

1. 1.

   any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down

   Synonymsdepressor

   Broaderskeletal muscle

Questions about depressor muscle

What does depressor muscle mean?

depressor muscle means "any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down".

What is another word for depressor muscle?

Close synonyms include depressor. 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 muscle a common word?

depressor muscle 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.