depressor nerve

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsdepressor

   Broadernerve

Questions about depressor nerve

What does depressor nerve mean?

depressor nerve means "any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves".

What is another word for depressor nerve?

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 nerve a common word?

depressor nerve 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.